What you see at first glance when you look at an illustration of Sophie Griotto is Paris, then you notice her women. A beautiful cosmopolitan city filled with super fashion ladies, well dressed and always smiling. Who was in Paris knows that it is not difficult to see girls like this, then the image that gives us back the french illustrator is absolutely perfect.
Fashion illustrations by Sophie Griotto are not only perfect because they tell a city and its habits, its streets the roofs of Paris with their characteristic blue zinc color or its female inhabitants. But even the female characters are accurate and presented in the best possible way.
Her main characteristic is the’accuracy of details, just notice how can render the fabric with the simple use of colored pencils, watercolors and ink.
Her work includes several stages, uses both traditional illustration techniques with pencil, brush and watercolours and then implements and refines colors and effects with the graphics tablet (Wacom) and Photoshop.
Compared to other fashion illustrators that we have already seen in this blog, the illustration is complete. Many illustrators, in fact with a few strokes of black ink on white sheet invents characters, models, clothes. Griotto, instead, prefers to describe the entire environment in which lives her character: specific routes and sites, even daily actions and specific sensations. The result is that her illustrations are more like vignettes representing the essence of life in Paris.
Sophie Griotto fashion illustration
The French freelance illustrator has a really fascinating portfolio, She worked for various advertising campaigns and magazines. To visit her portfolio I suggest you click here. If you want to read an interview go to blog ronniespirit.com.
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