Hayden Williams

Hayden Williams is a social media famous fashion illustrator and designer. He uses pencils,markers, fine liners and brush pens as well for his illustrations. He likes to share his work mostly through Tumblr and I researched further to see if he uses any digital softwares to neat up his work but as one of his followers asked him he said "simply pencil.. I'm old skool" which is simply amazing.

This is one of my favourite piece of illustrations he's done so far. 

What I like about it? 

It looks so realistic but apart from that it is beautifully detailed. I like the way he has applied shadow and light into the skin tone to make it look so realistic. The whole illustration is very effective and with all due honesty there's nothing for me to criticise about. 

Perhaps I could take the idea of the Vogue bit at the top and make my illustration into a Vogue Magazine Cover like I mentioned in my proposal. 

This is another of his illustrations. The reason why I want to evaluate this one this one is mostly because the dress that I will be illustrating will be similar to this dress. 

What I like about this illustration is mostly the dress because there's A LOT of detail in this dress and I absolutely love that because that is what I exactly want to achieve in my final illustration. I like the way he has drawn the attention on the dress more than the model itself because really that's what he's trying to show that whoever he was illustrating, what they were wearing was on point. 

For this one, it is the same thing that applies for the previous one, so much detail in the dress that makes it look 3D and also realistic and effective, very nice.

Overall.. 

Hayden Williams is an amazing illustrator and one of the things that I've mostly learnt and will take from him is by drawing in pencil, fine liner and maybe brush pen and markers. One final thing that I've learnt from his illustrations is the fact that he does not do anything to the background, he leaves it blank; why? Because, in my own opinion the background isn't as important because what you're trying to illustrate should be the subject and the attention of the viewer and nothing more than that.