Whilst researching illustrations, I discovered Aitor Throup who is a fashion designer. He creates bizarre and almost sculptural fashion pieces for men and his style of sketching designs caught my eye.
Most fashion designers use plainer, "mannequin" like sketches of models to design their pieces onto, whereas Throup puts strong poses into his sketches that bring out the personality of the clothing.
The figures have muted colour schemes and come across quite twisted and "creepy", somewhat like illustrations for a dark fairy tale.
I find this dark style of bringing across character through fashion very interesting and would like to try sketching the characters from The Masque of the Red Death in this way as they wear very gothic and ornate clothing. I feel this will bring across the heavy atmosphere of the story and bring out the creepier side to what, at first, appears to be a celebratory, jovial masquerade ball.
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