Author(s): Marta Madison (Illustrator, Cover Design by, Artist, Drawings by); Kate Lyons-Dawson (Index by, Editor)

Fashion

Girl Can Draw charts my 30-year career as a fashion illustrator, with tips and tricks to take your drawing to the next level and includes over 90 illustrations, including those by my mother. My business, DrawnToFashion.com.au, was born in 2012, after an art therapy session at a rural retreat reignited my love of fashion drawing after a hiatus of 20 years. Girl Can Draw is testament to the power of self-belief, the strength of my inner visions, and a love-letter to my mother, whose art talent I inherited. Segmented into topics as diverse as the joys of sketching, my colour techniques and my approach to drawing the female form, it offers up a lifetime of artistic experience for you to enjoy and be inspired by. I also pay tribute to those artists that changed our view of fashion illustration forever: Rene Gruau, Antonio Lopez, and Eric (Carl Erickson), to name a few. The work of these visionaries pushes me to higher standards as I 'chase the precious line'.I hope you enjoy my visual diary and it inspires you to see this world in new ways. This gorgeous volume will catch the eye of fashion lovers and those who have an interest in contemporary figurative art and visual communication.