We had to research into at least 6 illustrators for this final brief, personally if I'd actually got my derriere into gear I would have wanted to do at least 10. However, I have not been the best student recently for personal reasons so I am sticking to 6 but making up for quantity with quality....hopefully.
Illustration is something I am really interested in and really enjoy doing! So researching them as well is just my idea of pure heaven! It's like the nutella of fashion if you like.
Ive of course put Stina Persson on the list as I just LOVE her work as well as tried to use as many new discoveries as possible.
And here they are...
Anna Kiper, I love her work it's elegant to look at but also completely unique. It's a bizarre but quite modern way of drawing and I love how on the right hand illustration of the woman in a trench coat is black and white but with a slashing of blood red down the front, looks really unusual and striking. 
This one I love, it's by an illustrator called Cecilia Carlstedt, I love the unfinished but still beautiful face and deep tones of purple contrasting against the faint pink shades of the background and bodice. It's very feminine yet has a grungy look to it with the raw edges of the neck piece and imperfections of the face.
Krister Selin, so eary and Gothic looking its genuinely quite spooky to look at her models faces and frame structures but her natural talent is a serious subject matter! I really like her work, I found her when searching for Vivienne Westwoods work and I have to admit I got very excited, not in a sad way but in a more reassuring kind of way as my drawings/illustrations have quite a haunting edge to them too as you may have noticed with my designs for my final brief, they're hardly normal!
Very similar to Selin's style of work, Laura Laine (most famous for her collaboration with H&M) is possibly my second favourite illustrator thus far! I can't quite figure out why though, her work again is very unusual and has a sort of myth like look to it with the expressionless eyes and exaggerated masses of hair waving around such spidery legs. All her work is based black and white but occasionally splashes of fresh or ultra vibrant shades are thrown in, but personally I think they work perfectly without the splash!
This one is by an illustrator Lucy Macleod, it has quite a theatrical and innocent impression about it but at the same time is very mature with the tonal work on the neck piece and poised expression around the lips and eyes. I want to try and re-create or 'copy' each illustrators designs and I think for this one I'll definitely be using some kind of sugar paper and a lot of various tones of pencil crayon! Again, a drawing I could just gaze at all day! (And yes, I am a MASSIVE art's and illustrations fan, but then nothings more chic than geek!)
And last but not least:
Stina Persson, no explanation required apart from... Beautiful.
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