“Eventually, something clicked and illustration became a major passion of mine,” she notes. “I realized that I could combine the two things that I am passionate about.” Based in Los Angeles, Karman is both an illustrator and designer, with her illustrations almost entirely dedicated to trends and the people who follow them.

Fashion, and specifically runway shows, also provide Karman with an endless source of inspiration. “I’ll take a runway image and create a whole story of who the girl is and where she would be,” she says. “I then place her in that situation within my illustration. That’s where a lot of my pieces start.”

But as most fashionistas know, more often than not, it’s not clothes that make the man but rather the opposite. Styling is also important, as well as choices of color and composition. “My work is not about trends at all,” says Karman, “that doesn’t interest me. If anything I like clothes that are more retro.”

The post The Fashion Forward Illustrations of Bijou Karman appeared first on TettyBetty.

But her work isn’t just meant to be aesthetically pleasing. According to Kasia, her illustrations articulate the very feelings she felt while making them, be it happiness, euphoria, heartache, or grief. “I try not to tiptoe around the subject,” she told Jung Katz, “instead, I want to examine and explore these sensations with a scalpel.”

“Art is a powerful tool it has that unique ability to engage individuals in a very deep and personal way,” she notes. “It’s like the door to other people’s minds and hearts. When people open them to you, you receive a rare chance to show them the world, through your own eyes.”

With Kasia’s work, the door seems to be wide open. Since graduating from the University of Marie Curie Sklodowska in Lublin Poland with a Master’s Degree in Arts, her work has been showcased at Berlin’s Biennale of Illustration and Graphic Art, blue-chip gallery Walton Fine Arts in London, and other notable exhibitions.

But you can also follow her creations online via Instagram:

The post Kasia’s Digital Portraits Are Cool and Collected appeared first on TettyBetty.

Her clientele includes publications like the New Yorker, as well as brands like C&A, Street One, Blutsgeschwister, and Zalando; and an outfit she designed was worn by singer Maya Azucena on the runway. Helf has also won some noteworthy awards, such as the international fashion design competition Style X at the SWSW Festival in Austin, in 2012.

But her creative journey arguably begun much earlier than that, when she was only 4-years-old and would doodle about. Nowadays, she makes sure to carry her camera and sketchbook with her wherever she goes. “When I see an interesting outfit, textile design, trend or color combination, I usually take some pictures to capture it or I sketch the idea,” she told Talenthouse. “After this, I brainstorm and put all my ideas together.”

A relentless trend hunter, Helf finds inspiration in museums, paintings, nature, fashion shows, magazines, pop culture, music, and more. “Sometimes when I am doing nearly anything, or simply even people watching, I get great ideas for textile design and illustration,” she notes.

Below you’ll find some highlights from her fashion illustrations.

The post Nicole Helf is a Relentless Trend Hunter appeared first on TettyBetty.

With an overwhelmingly optimistic approach to both life and art, finding inspiration comes easy for Naranian. “There are many things around me that I am able to get inspired by,” she relayed in an interview with I Love Illustration. These “things” range from clothing and textiles to books and old magazines.

But she also finds inspiration from fashion sketches, mentioning masters like Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, and David Downtown, and their playful approach to design. “What I appreciate about the three of these artists (and fashion designers) is their playfulness with figure, shape, and color,” she notes. “I find playfulness to be an intriguing element in the creation of art because it is able to evoke a story by capturing the fundamental parts of the image without getting too bogged down by the details.”

Based in Toronto, Canada, when Naranian isn’t in the studio, you can find her getting lost in vintage clothing stores, looking for further inspiration. “My interest in vintage fashion can be seen reflected in my art,” she adds, “because I think much of contemporary fashion is indebted to what has come before it.”

The post This Fashion Illustrator Proves That More is More appeared first on TettyBetty.

Her dynamic process also means she doesn’t rely on sketches or erasers but rather goes “straight for the real deal.” “I often make several versions of one theme and add on tho earlier drawings or take different parts from others till it will emerge into something that feels right for me,” Molenaar explains. “I always try to balance technique with a bit of impulsiveness. It is often the little accidents, ‘faulty’ lines  and even things that you don’t draw that make my illustrations come alive.”

Based in Amsterdam, Molenaar’s introduction to fashion illustration was by a sort of accident. “I always wanted to be a fashion designer so I went to the famous academy in Antwerp but stopped in the first year,” she says.

“After I moved to Amsterdam during my masters in Art History I just desperately needed a job and decided to go draw on festivals and weekend markets for voluntary donations. Just because I was already always drawing anyway and it seemed so much more fun than working in a cafe or coffee bar. This was in a time that nobody was doing live illustration yet, so I got picked up really quickly,” she explains.

Much like her spontaneous illustrations, Molenaar’s career intuition proved right and she soon caught the attention of brands like Dolce & Gabbana, L’Officiel, and H&M. Take a look at some of her work in the gallery below.

The post On the Go: Sella Molenaar’s Impulsive Fashion Illustrations appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I like to color outside the lines,” admitted de Graaf in an interview with I Love Illustration. “I don’t sketch with a pencil; I just create lots of silhouettes or faces with watercolor/ ink directly on paper.” “I focus on simplicity, less is more,” she went on to say. “I prefer working with my hands and don’t want to sit in front of a computer all day.”

Born in a small village in the North of the Netherlands, she moved to Amsterdam at the age of 18 to study fashion. “When I went to the academy, fashion drawing and figure drawing were my favorite subjects,” she says. After an internship at Cosmopolitan Magazine, she had a short stint as a freelance stylist. “But Illustrating was what I loved most so after a few years of styling I decided to change course and started working as an illustrator,” she says.

Now based in Alkmaar, her work includes collaborations with brands like AvantGarde, Viva, Elegance, Libelle, and Margriet. Here are some highlights from her Instagram page.

The post Tessa M. de Graaf’s Fashion Illustrations are All About Simplicity appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I still cannot work natively in digital,” she admitted in an interview with I Love Illustration, “but will see, never say never.” Her latest project is an illustrative exploration of contemporary fashion, which serves as a fashion visual story. “With illustration, I have struggled a bit to maintain a definitive style and I know this is sometimes a flaw, especially for someone working as a professional,” she says. “Iʼve got a ‘transitional period’ every few years in which I get bored of what I do and search for new fresh inspirations.”

Having studied Graphic Design in Milan and Fashion Illustration in London, she’s now based in Milan where she works as a fashion illustrator and art director, as well as teaches Graphic and Multimedia Design at the prestigious Istituto Marangoni. “I am very fortunate because I work every day with groups of young creative students from all over the world,” she says. “I get to share ideas with them and artistically direct them through different projects.”

Bouncing off ideas with other creatives also means her fashion illustrations are always pushing forward. We’re sure we’re going to see a lot of her in the upcoming years. But meanwhile, hop onto her Instagram page.

The post We Can’t Get Enough of Simona Murialdo’s Fashion Illustrations appeared first on TettyBetty.

Her process begins with some brainstorming and sketching, after which she turns to acrylic paint and sometimes, Photoshop. “Most of the time I brainstorm in my sketchbook and make small 15sec sketches to figure out the composition and pose,” she shared her artistic process with I Love Illustration. “I start by drawing with colored pencils and sometimes markers for the big gestures and sketch, then I will move onto acrylic paint if it’s needed. I sometimes work digitally as well, but I always start with a drawing on paper which I will then transfer into Photoshop.”

The result is a vibrant mixture of color and loose compositions, making for an undeniably cool effect, and one which has earned her collaborations with magazines as well as other artists. “Freelancing makes me schedule my own time and this is absolutely what makes it worth all the extra work and uncertainties,” says Bemmel. “Being my own boss and deciding for myself what to do that day is incredibly rewarding. All the work I put in is coming back to me at some point, if I get lazy it doesn’t.”

Follow her vibrant work.

The post Here’s Another Fashion Illustrator You Should Follow appeared first on TettyBetty.

“Back then I didn’t know what fashion illustration was, I just loved drawing weird girls wearing my favourite designer pieces. I then realized illustration was a more suitable medium for me than photography,” the artist said in an interview for I Love Illustrations and added that she is currently exploring the digital world and creating interesting characters.

“I really can get inspired by the most random things at the most random places but what always inspired me, and this might sound cliché, is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, I love her and her curiosity. I even have Sir John Tenniel’s classic Alice tattooed on my arm,” she added.

If you are curious to see her work, check out the gallery below.

The post Artist Illustrates Weird, Fashionable Girls appeared first on TettyBetty.

“When I think of my style I’m sure it’s quite… happy!” said Pawelczyk in an interview with I Love Illustration. “What I love the most about my job is that every project is different,” she adds. “One day I draw for magazines, next day I focus on the illustrations for campaigns, another day I search for inspiration for the 20/30 meters big illustration which is going to stand in the center of one of the biggest cities in Europe. This is quite crazy and I love it.”

Using bright-colored markers, Canson paper, and a few digital helpers, Pawelczyk’s attitude towards art-making is as carefree as her illustrated women. “I turn on nice music, create a really nice atmosphere and I draw,” she says. “I also love the fact that I can work remotely. I choose the place where I feel comfortable – it can be my studio, a beach in Sri Lanka or an Airbnb in Gdańsk. I love that freedom my work gives me.”

Her joyful creations haven’t gone unnoticed, with brands like Marc Jacobs and Grazia Germany sharing her work on their social media platforms. Pawelczyk has also collaborated with BIZUU, which has printed some of her illustrations on t-shirts, blouses, and dresses.

Follow her on Instagram for more.

The post Karolina Pawelczyk’s Carefree, Fashionable Characters appeared first on TettyBetty.

“Eventually, something clicked and illustration became a major passion of mine,” she notes. “I realized that I could combine the two things that I am passionate about.” Based in Los Angeles, Karman is both an illustrator and designer, with her illustrations almost entirely dedicated to trends and the people who follow them.

Fashion, and specifically runway shows, also provide Karman with an endless source of inspiration. “I’ll take a runway image and create a whole story of who the girl is and where she would be,” she says. “I then place her in that situation within my illustration. That’s where a lot of my pieces start.”

But as most fashionistas know, more often than not, it’s not clothes that make the man but rather the opposite. Styling is also important, as well as choices of color and composition. “My work is not about trends at all,” says Karman, “that doesn’t interest me. If anything I like clothes that are more retro.”

The post The Fashion Forward Illustrations of Bijou Karman appeared first on TettyBetty.

But her work isn’t just meant to be aesthetically pleasing. According to Kasia, her illustrations articulate the very feelings she felt while making them, be it happiness, euphoria, heartache, or grief. “I try not to tiptoe around the subject,” she told Jung Katz, “instead, I want to examine and explore these sensations with a scalpel.”

“Art is a powerful tool it has that unique ability to engage individuals in a very deep and personal way,” she notes. “It’s like the door to other people’s minds and hearts. When people open them to you, you receive a rare chance to show them the world, through your own eyes.”

With Kasia’s work, the door seems to be wide open. Since graduating from the University of Marie Curie Sklodowska in Lublin Poland with a Master’s Degree in Arts, her work has been showcased at Berlin’s Biennale of Illustration and Graphic Art, blue-chip gallery Walton Fine Arts in London, and other notable exhibitions.

But you can also follow her creations online via Instagram:

The post Kasia’s Digital Portraits Are Cool and Collected appeared first on TettyBetty.

Her clientele includes publications like the New Yorker, as well as brands like C&A, Street One, Blutsgeschwister, and Zalando; and an outfit she designed was worn by singer Maya Azucena on the runway. Helf has also won some noteworthy awards, such as the international fashion design competition Style X at the SWSW Festival in Austin, in 2012.

But her creative journey arguably begun much earlier than that, when she was only 4-years-old and would doodle about. Nowadays, she makes sure to carry her camera and sketchbook with her wherever she goes. “When I see an interesting outfit, textile design, trend or color combination, I usually take some pictures to capture it or I sketch the idea,” she told Talenthouse. “After this, I brainstorm and put all my ideas together.”

A relentless trend hunter, Helf finds inspiration in museums, paintings, nature, fashion shows, magazines, pop culture, music, and more. “Sometimes when I am doing nearly anything, or simply even people watching, I get great ideas for textile design and illustration,” she notes.

Below you’ll find some highlights from her fashion illustrations.

The post Nicole Helf is a Relentless Trend Hunter appeared first on TettyBetty.

With an overwhelmingly optimistic approach to both life and art, finding inspiration comes easy for Naranian. “There are many things around me that I am able to get inspired by,” she relayed in an interview with I Love Illustration. These “things” range from clothing and textiles to books and old magazines.

But she also finds inspiration from fashion sketches, mentioning masters like Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, and David Downtown, and their playful approach to design. “What I appreciate about the three of these artists (and fashion designers) is their playfulness with figure, shape, and color,” she notes. “I find playfulness to be an intriguing element in the creation of art because it is able to evoke a story by capturing the fundamental parts of the image without getting too bogged down by the details.”

Based in Toronto, Canada, when Naranian isn’t in the studio, you can find her getting lost in vintage clothing stores, looking for further inspiration. “My interest in vintage fashion can be seen reflected in my art,” she adds, “because I think much of contemporary fashion is indebted to what has come before it.”

The post This Fashion Illustrator Proves That More is More appeared first on TettyBetty.

Her dynamic process also means she doesn’t rely on sketches or erasers but rather goes “straight for the real deal.” “I often make several versions of one theme and add on tho earlier drawings or take different parts from others till it will emerge into something that feels right for me,” Molenaar explains. “I always try to balance technique with a bit of impulsiveness. It is often the little accidents, ‘faulty’ lines  and even things that you don’t draw that make my illustrations come alive.”

Based in Amsterdam, Molenaar’s introduction to fashion illustration was by a sort of accident. “I always wanted to be a fashion designer so I went to the famous academy in Antwerp but stopped in the first year,” she says.

“After I moved to Amsterdam during my masters in Art History I just desperately needed a job and decided to go draw on festivals and weekend markets for voluntary donations. Just because I was already always drawing anyway and it seemed so much more fun than working in a cafe or coffee bar. This was in a time that nobody was doing live illustration yet, so I got picked up really quickly,” she explains.

Much like her spontaneous illustrations, Molenaar’s career intuition proved right and she soon caught the attention of brands like Dolce & Gabbana, L’Officiel, and H&M. Take a look at some of her work in the gallery below.

The post On the Go: Sella Molenaar’s Impulsive Fashion Illustrations appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I like to color outside the lines,” admitted de Graaf in an interview with I Love Illustration. “I don’t sketch with a pencil; I just create lots of silhouettes or faces with watercolor/ ink directly on paper.” “I focus on simplicity, less is more,” she went on to say. “I prefer working with my hands and don’t want to sit in front of a computer all day.”

Born in a small village in the North of the Netherlands, she moved to Amsterdam at the age of 18 to study fashion. “When I went to the academy, fashion drawing and figure drawing were my favorite subjects,” she says. After an internship at Cosmopolitan Magazine, she had a short stint as a freelance stylist. “But Illustrating was what I loved most so after a few years of styling I decided to change course and started working as an illustrator,” she says.

Now based in Alkmaar, her work includes collaborations with brands like AvantGarde, Viva, Elegance, Libelle, and Margriet. Here are some highlights from her Instagram page.

The post Tessa M. de Graaf’s Fashion Illustrations are All About Simplicity appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I still cannot work natively in digital,” she admitted in an interview with I Love Illustration, “but will see, never say never.” Her latest project is an illustrative exploration of contemporary fashion, which serves as a fashion visual story. “With illustration, I have struggled a bit to maintain a definitive style and I know this is sometimes a flaw, especially for someone working as a professional,” she says. “Iʼve got a ‘transitional period’ every few years in which I get bored of what I do and search for new fresh inspirations.”

Having studied Graphic Design in Milan and Fashion Illustration in London, she’s now based in Milan where she works as a fashion illustrator and art director, as well as teaches Graphic and Multimedia Design at the prestigious Istituto Marangoni. “I am very fortunate because I work every day with groups of young creative students from all over the world,” she says. “I get to share ideas with them and artistically direct them through different projects.”

Bouncing off ideas with other creatives also means her fashion illustrations are always pushing forward. We’re sure we’re going to see a lot of her in the upcoming years. But meanwhile, hop onto her Instagram page.

The post We Can’t Get Enough of Simona Murialdo’s Fashion Illustrations appeared first on TettyBetty.

Her process begins with some brainstorming and sketching, after which she turns to acrylic paint and sometimes, Photoshop. “Most of the time I brainstorm in my sketchbook and make small 15sec sketches to figure out the composition and pose,” she shared her artistic process with I Love Illustration. “I start by drawing with colored pencils and sometimes markers for the big gestures and sketch, then I will move onto acrylic paint if it’s needed. I sometimes work digitally as well, but I always start with a drawing on paper which I will then transfer into Photoshop.”

The result is a vibrant mixture of color and loose compositions, making for an undeniably cool effect, and one which has earned her collaborations with magazines as well as other artists. “Freelancing makes me schedule my own time and this is absolutely what makes it worth all the extra work and uncertainties,” says Bemmel. “Being my own boss and deciding for myself what to do that day is incredibly rewarding. All the work I put in is coming back to me at some point, if I get lazy it doesn’t.”

Follow her vibrant work.

The post Here’s Another Fashion Illustrator You Should Follow appeared first on TettyBetty.

“Back then I didn’t know what fashion illustration was, I just loved drawing weird girls wearing my favourite designer pieces. I then realized illustration was a more suitable medium for me than photography,” the artist said in an interview for I Love Illustrations and added that she is currently exploring the digital world and creating interesting characters.

“I really can get inspired by the most random things at the most random places but what always inspired me, and this might sound cliché, is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, I love her and her curiosity. I even have Sir John Tenniel’s classic Alice tattooed on my arm,” she added.

If you are curious to see her work, check out the gallery below.

The post Artist Illustrates Weird, Fashionable Girls appeared first on TettyBetty.

“When I think of my style I’m sure it’s quite… happy!” said Pawelczyk in an interview with I Love Illustration. “What I love the most about my job is that every project is different,” she adds. “One day I draw for magazines, next day I focus on the illustrations for campaigns, another day I search for inspiration for the 20/30 meters big illustration which is going to stand in the center of one of the biggest cities in Europe. This is quite crazy and I love it.”

Using bright-colored markers, Canson paper, and a few digital helpers, Pawelczyk’s attitude towards art-making is as carefree as her illustrated women. “I turn on nice music, create a really nice atmosphere and I draw,” she says. “I also love the fact that I can work remotely. I choose the place where I feel comfortable – it can be my studio, a beach in Sri Lanka or an Airbnb in Gdańsk. I love that freedom my work gives me.”

Her joyful creations haven’t gone unnoticed, with brands like Marc Jacobs and Grazia Germany sharing her work on their social media platforms. Pawelczyk has also collaborated with BIZUU, which has printed some of her illustrations on t-shirts, blouses, and dresses.

Follow her on Instagram for more.

The post Karolina Pawelczyk’s Carefree, Fashionable Characters appeared first on TettyBetty.