You can imagine my delight when I learned my new assignment for
Matchbook would be King of Chanel, Mr. Karl Lagerfeld. Ooooo how I adored doing some image research for this project. I watched a few interviews, and some documentaries
Signe Chanel (a must see for all Chanel obsessed, one becomes even more in love with their quality and handy work) and
Lagerfeld Confidential. I also went through hundreds of pages in the
Vogue style files to get a better grasp of his personal style. He is so dang quirky, fun, black and white, and chic... totally intimidating!
A few stills from Lagerfeld Confidential...
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| His neon crisp white bed situated in the center of possibly thousands of books and magazines. |
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| Magazine chaos! |
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| Karl has an insane silver ring collection. |
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| He has drawers full of those signature tall white collars! |
Then I got to work. Made a collage of Karl-y things on one of my screens as a super reference.
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| and a screenshot of my inspiration while I worked on my drawing |
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| My work table. I use the large screen for my inspiration images, and on the small laptop screen I catch up on latest episodes of Gossip Girl or watch favorite movies such as Breakfast at Tiffany's. |
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| my first pensil sketch |
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| detail |
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| more detail. sometimes I fall a little in love with my scratchy pencil lines, and it can be tough to see them go at eraser time. This feeling fades instantly of course when I see the final gorgeous perfect black ink lines! |
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| final in ink |
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| The final illustration! So dang chic. Who knew one could use so many shades of black?! |
It's of course available in my little
Etsy shop too. I wonder who next month shall be?
2 comments:
I love the legacy of Chanel. I think its so interesting how a company/fashion house started by such an independent woman is now run by an equally elegant man. Thanks for sharing your process. I'd love to see more Chanel!
I love the piece you did for Matchbook this month!! So perfect!
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