Antonio Lopez (Biography)

Antonio Lopez was a fashion illustrator, born in Utuado, Puerto Rico on February 11th, 1943. His family migrated to New York when he was seven years old. He went to school there where he gained the friendship and admiration of other children as well as teachers because of his talent. He was awarded a scholarship to the Traphagen School of Fashion, at the age of twelve. Lopez was encouraged to attend the High School of Art and Design by his junior high school art teacher and the Fashion Institute of technology while attending the F.I.T. he began an internship at Womens Wear Daily which led to him leaving school and working at the publication. Shortly afterward he left for a position at the New York Times In the early 1960, Lopez started to work for fashion magazine such as Vogue, Bazaar and Elle. He also did illustrations of Fashion Design by Charles James. In 1969 Lopez moved to Paris along with Ramos and was an associate of Karl Lagerfeld; he stayed there until the mid-1970s. Antonio discovered Jessica Lange in 1974. He discovered Jerry Hall and lived with her in Paris at the beginning of her modelling career. Lopez and Ramos also discovered Grace Jones and Tina Chow.

Antonio Lopez (Illustration-1)

This is the one of fashion Illustration by Antonio Lopez. In this drawing, he used mainly watercolors because you can see the brush stroke in the drawing. Also you can see the paint are kind of transparent and look wet. Also he painted light to dark because adding light colors later can be difficult in watercolors. He used yellow color to bring out the drawing and used dark brown color for shadowing. I was impressed by this drawing as watercolors are very fast to dry and harder to layer on top of the other paint and also harder to fix mistakes when its dry

Antonio Lopez (Illustration-2)

In this drawing I think Antonio used water colour, charcoal and pencil because some of the paint, you can see through and they look watery and also you can see the brush stroke in the painting. I think he sketched the figure with pencil before painting as you can see the outline in the drawing and some of them are really thin and clean line. There are lines in the drawing and some are short and some are long and they are pretty dark and they look like they were drew by charcoal to me. I really like this painting as he used three different materials and he knows how to use and where they put. It looks a bit kind of messy but it made the painting more unique.

Antonio Lopez (Illustration-3)

Another one of Antonio Lopezs painting. In this painting he used only charcoal as the colour is pretty dark that you cant make by pencil or pen and the painting is a bit rough and sketchy look. Also the lines are really black and heavy as charcoals are used to make bold finished drawing and to create shadows and heavy shading. The figure in the painting is proportional and the strokes are clean and perfect as charcoal are really difficult to draw as they are easily spread by the touch of the hand. I influence by this drawing as charcoal is easy to pick up, but very hard to master.

Antonio Lopez (Fashion Girl)

This painting is called Fashion Girl (a.k.a) Woman with hat or Stylish Lady. In this painting Antonio used watercolour as the painting is really bright and colourful. Some people say that watercolour art is a very powerful way to express your feelings in particular; watercolour can be effectively used to represent the artistic vision on a piece of paper. Watercolour paintings are considered a unique way to creatively represent dreams, illusions, emotion, and bright feelings using water-soluble pigments. I think Antonio used this painting to express his feeling as women are become stylish and fashionable.

Antonio Lopez (Illustration-6)

This is also one of the paintings from Antonio Lopez. I think this is a combination of ink and watercolour as the colour look wet and lively. The colour on the hair is a bit more watery and transparent so I think its the watercolour. I think the black paint is an Ink as ink is an incredibly versatile medium. When you are painting with ink, you can create many of the same strokes, textures and shapes that you can create with coloured paint. But because ink is restricted in tone, you can only be creating works in black, white and grey.

Antonio Lopez (Illustration-7)

Another one of Antonio Lopezs painting. In this painting I also think this is the combination of pencil and charcoal as this one look like a rough sketch but very neat one. I think first he used pencil to sketch a face and then he started to shade it. After that he drew proper eyes, eyebrow, nose and mouth. Then he tops it with the charcoal. I like this picture as I personally like the pencil drawing because its easy to draw than any other paint and the mistakes will be easily erase by rubber.