Fashion Design

Fashion Illustration

Drawings, 1992–1993

Drawn by Lee Anchor

Drawings made alongside the garments during the Associate Diploma of Arts (Fashion) — where the figure is held to a few lines and everything else goes into the cloth.

They were worked in whatever suited the idea: ink for the flat graphic shapes, gouache and acrylic where the colour had to sit hard and even, charcoal and pencil where the drawing wanted weight and movement. Several exist in more than one state, the line drawing kept and then worked over, overlaid or mirrored.

Hair in the Wind, and Parallel Forms

One figure held in two states — the pencil drawing, and the same drawing with its line version laid over the top, so the two readings sit alongside one another.

Pencil drawing of a figure with long hair streaming sideways, in a pinstriped jacket over a paisley skirt

The same figure drawn twice and overlaid, one version in pencil and one in ink, inscribed original line drawing and signed

Left: Hair in the Wind, pencil on illustration board, 40 × 30 cm. Right: Parallel Forms, pencil and ink on illustration board, 40 × 30 cm — winner, Old Masters Academy Art Competition, Winter 2018.

Reflection

The figure mirrored so two identical women meet face to face, hair flying out to either side

Pencil on illustration board. 40 × 30 cm.

Girl Behind the Blinds

A seated figure holding out a skirt of hard black-and-white shapes, drawn first in line and then set against a ground of horizontal bars, so the stripes of the room and the stripes of the dress read as one surface.

A figure in a black and purple patterned skirt set against a ground of horizontal black and white bars, with a yellow cuff at the wrist

The same figure in pen and ink alone — black and white shapes, long glove, hair pinned up

Gouache and ink, 35 × 28 cm. Beside it, the line drawing in pen and ink.

The Red Shoe

A figure in a strapless red gown drawn in a few black brush lines, with a red high-heeled shoe painted very large in the foreground

Acrylic and ink on illustration board, 30 × 20 cm. The shoe is brought forward until it is the larger of the two subjects.

Unfolding

A charcoal figure in a fitted jacket over a wide tiered skirt, drawn on buff paper with white chalk lifting the highlights

Charcoal and white chalk on buff paper, cut out and mounted. 43 × 38 cm.

Synthetic Siren

An angular figure in a pointed hat and a fitted jacket, drawn in pencil over a pale painted ground, with construction circles and lines left visible across the body

Pencil on a gouache ground, 45 × 35 cm. The construction geometry is left showing through the finished figure.

Peers by Just Jean

Pencil, 29 × 21 cm. Nine figures packed shoulder to shoulder, the whole drawing carried by one garment worked nine different ways.

Girl in Hue

A pen-and-ink fashion figure — hair streaming sideways, in a striped jacket over a lace-panelled dress — laid over a grid of graded colour that runs blue, green, yellow, orange, red and violet across the sheet, so the same drawing reads differently in each band

Gouache and ink on watercolour paper, 40 × 30 cm, 1997. The figure is drawn once and then read through a graded colour grid, so the same line changes character as it crosses from blue to yellow to red. A white column is left unpainted down the centre, giving the eye the drawing without any colour at all.

Skirt

Colour pencil and pencil on watercolour paper, 25 × 40 cm, 1993. A surface design worked out panel by panel: pearls, jewelled clasps, floral sprays and check, with parts of the drawing carried through to full colour and the rest left in line, so the two states can be read against one another.

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