Svetlana Makarova was born in Ukraine, in Lugansk on August 09, 1981. Now lives and works in Kiev, the capital city of Ukraine.
She doesn’t have any special education in arts, but qualified in specialized diplomas as an:
- Applied mathematician,
- Teacher of English language and
- Literature, and manager-economist.
- She was fond of drawing since her very early childhood, but decided to make fashion illustration her career only in March 2006, after quitting her job as a manager.
- She began to study Corel DRAW and drawing some portfolios at the same time. It took her 2 months before she found her first permanent job at a Web Design Studio, which she describes as “that was the beginning”.
- She worked as a web designer, created illustrations and eventually - began to receive orders on my illustrations. After having worked at 3 different design studios she decided that she was ready to be involved only in illustration drawing and began freelancing.
- During her childhood she always dreamt of becoming a fashion designer one day. So when she started drawing she drew what she could do best at that time and which were girls in fashionable clothes. And eventually those became her personal style.
- Fashion illustrators she admires and is inspired by
Svetlana’s favorite fashion illustrators include among others:
- Gavin Reece – For his so extremely detailed, vivid and glamorous style
- Arturo Elena – For his stylized sophisticated fashion
- David Downton – For his clean style, classical fashion illustration style, with appreciation of how light and fragile his paintings are
- She is also inspired by fashion designers, and takes the time to look through collections of every season, in search of inspiration.
She loves drawing texture and textiles, shading, highlights, folds; she also loves drawing bags, shoes and different accessories (earrings, necklaces). “The harder object for depiction is, the more exciting it is for me to draw it” she asserts.
Some of Svetlana Makarova's work
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Work methods, elimination of detail, and application of color
Svetlana is keen on details demonstrating purity and accuracy, a perfectionist at her craft.
As for coloring method
She uses Adobe Illustrator at the moment, and exploits majority of its tools for instance;
- For drawing shapes she uses Pen Tool for accurate lines,
- For more freestyle she uses Pencil Tool,
- For thin lines (like hair) she uses brushes.
- Coloring layers’ modes (multiply, overlay, screen), transparencies, gradients, blends and sometimes meshes
-According to her a successful fashion illustration must demonstrate;
It’s mood, emotion it brings to people, With particular attention to details and colors.
When drawing for herself she might;
- Start with a pencil sketch
- Scan them to the computer
- Then start vectoring in Adobe Illustrator
When working on a commissions she usually;
- Sketches in Photoshop because it saves time, during correction and modification of an image.
- She the proceeds to adding detail and color.
Svetlana Makarova is my second chosen illustrator her images exude beauty, perfection, delicately demonstrating fashion characters with great attention to detail,shapes and proportions .
In an email communication between me and her to which I must say she was very helpful and prompt I acquired the following information.
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