ILUSTRATION ARTISTS: Michael Roberts

             Michael Roberts is a British Fashion journalist, illustrator and photographer born in 1948. He studied fine art and graphic design before moving into fashion and now he lives in New York City, USA, and is the Fashion and style director of Vanity Fair magazine. He already worked as fashion director in others magazines as the New Yorker, Tatler and also the British Vogue. He also made illustrations for Vanity Fair, L'Uomo Vogue; British, Italian, Japanese, French, American and many others Vogue magazines. Additionally, he has four books published of illustrations and photography.

             

             His illustrations are made of collage using coloured paper, illustrating, generally, the African culture and African influences. With warm colours, leaves, grass and animal patterns he make reference to the African landscapes. He does not use to much detail just basic shapes to give a perfect and simple form of the models, clothes and accessories. He also adds some 3D effects, for example, in the bottom of the picture in the right we can see the grass coming out of the flat collage.

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