Kevin Tallon: 'Digital Fashion Illustration' - Book review

On the surface, this is an essential step-by-step guide for students and professionals within the creative industry. Yet as you start to flick through the image-filled pages, you can't help but be inspired by the wildly varied pictures.

From photographic montages to ink drawings, your mind starts to become awash with possibilities. Better still, the easy to understand guide for the Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator software means that these beautiful dreams are all realistically within reach.

Whether your love is for graphic design, 3D animation or illustration, author Kevin Tallon (a teacher of London's Central St Martin's College) has included ideas and examples for all. Included is some truly eye-catching imagery that you’ll want to tear out and stick on your wall straight away (not that we condone ripping apart such a beautiful collection, of course).

Tips include everything from composition and adding fabric to your piece, to how to digital vector paint and piece together mixed media. The book's blurb boasts of 'instructions to create images that could grace fashion magazines, collection ranges and newspaper supplements’, and this is no pompous exaggeration.



Published on 8th September 2008 by Anova.

Written by Alexander Wilson.