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London, England
TENACITY:
ERIN PETSON
When possible, Petson starts her illustrations using a model. If she’s not working with a model,
she references a huge library of photographs from her personal photo-shoot archive. She
creates a sketch, making light and heavy marks with a pencil, adding abstract marks and color
to create the shapes and colors she sees in the garment and the Ågure. “Color can be very in-
timidating because you don’t want to ruin your pencil drawing. But once you add color, it gives
the illustration enough structure that you don’t always have to draw in line.” After her sketch is
complete, she scans the work to digitally manipulate the scale or composition in Photoshop.
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Really find your style. It defines you and
makes you stand out from the crowd.
Erin Petson has been illustrating professionally for more than a decade. In the beginning
she says it was incredibly hard but she was hungry for success, and she nurtured a drive
that would continue throughout her entire career. “I loved sending out postcards to fash-
ion houses and getting responses, even if they were not the desired response,” she says.
To try to get work, Petson approached local businesses with her drawings, and the result
was her Årst gigs with boutiques and hair salons. Her big break came when she moved
to London and landed a job with luxury department store Selfridges designing window
displays. In the years since, she has been invited by Dior to contribute to an exhibition
about Renu Gruau at Somerset House in London, and the Victoria and Albert Museum
has archived sixty of her original drawings.
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THE ART OF FASHION ILLUSTRATION | PART 2: THE ICONS
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Fashion Ink, pastel, pencil,
graphite, acrylic by Erin Petson.
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Love Elise Ink, pastel,
pencil, graphite, acrylic
by Erin Petson.
Petson continues to fuel her passion for her work.
“Fashion is constantly changing, so it never loses its
appeal,” she says. “Fashion illustration is a beauti-
ful craft and it’s so wonderful to see so much of it
around. I’d love to see it on the front cover of Vogue
again. It’s such a pleasure and honor for me to do
what I love for a living, and I’m so grateful to all
of the people who have helped me along the way.
Here’s to me getting the cover of Vogue.”
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A travel sketchbook and promotional
limited-edition postcard that Erin
Petson keeps in her sketchbook.
Erin Petson hand-embellished prints.
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Floral Spring Study
A work in progress by
Erin Petson.
Lanvin A/W 14 Paris Fashion
Week sketch, ink, pastel, pencil,
graphite, acrylic by Erin Petson.
A sketch from London Fashion
Week, backstage at Cristina
Sabaiduc by Erin Petson.
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