What was Antonio Lopez (fashion illustrator) 's technique?

Question

In a book i have, called 100 years of Fashion Illustration, his technique in my fav illustrations is 'PENTEL AND OVERLAY FILM'

What on earth is that? I love his illustration and would love to have a similar style.

Thats fantastic, you actually met him!

I actually found out about him in an article in Vouge, and i adore his work because it looks like he was working with basic outlines, but then theres so much of detail, and it captures his era so perfectly. Yes, and i did read about him using live models majority of the time. I just use magazines- due to the lack of models where i am...

In terms of the medium (as it should rightly be called) i am somewhat old school in this aspect, so if anyone could elaborate on the overlay film, i would appreciate . Thanks.

Answer 1

Edit: Pentels are colored markers. Overlay film is acetate sheets, generally. These used to be used a lot in making color separations for printing. These days we generally do it by computer. I haven't been able to find any place that sold pentels markers on-line, though Pentel still makes different pens. I would go to an art supply store and ask. If you must go to a chain, go to Pearl Paint. The people at Michael's are nice but not likely to know. For the same reason, that Pentel makes different pens, Office Depot and Staples, which I would have recommended, I can't. A knowledgeable sales person at a small art supply store should steer you towards equivalent colored markers, but I don't see them for sale now. These days a lot of what we used to do in the eighties with colored pens and clear plastic sheets we do with computer files, so there isn't that much demand for them any more even though someone like Antonio was an artist.


Pentel and Overlay film in other words was his medium, not his technique. He was also famous for his work in charcoal (both pencil and crayon) which I saw him use. Given his accounts, he could and did work from live models a lot. As I stated in sources, I met him once in his studio while drawing in charcoal and pastel from some young woman in an (I think) Norma Kamali dress (which always struck me as cold dresses that made you think of beauty rather than beautiful.

His technique was a ve-ery tight academic approach to fashion drawing. It was wonderfully effective. If you want to have a similar style, I'd worry less about copying his media and more about copying and studying his drawings (The introduction to H. W. Jansen's History of Art has a lot to say about good copies of drawings and paintings). Get some good materials, in short but copy him with whatever you have lying around.

Answer 2

He used watercolor an ink for many illustrations. When he launched his book Antonio's Girls I got a chance to meet him. I was studying in the Traphagen Sch of Fashion (where by the way as a youngster of 12 he also studied) And he spoke about his techniques and work ethic and career. Amazing man and artist!

Answer 3

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Answer 4

why compare both of them are really overated chivistas will say that arellano is the mexican messi and americanistas like yourself will call tony lopez the mexican ibrahimovic but i will say that arellano is better