When I draw live, I keep it really simple because the environment is so frantic.
You can't move out of the way quick enough because there's just so much going on;
you just wanna be able to get the right angles in everything.
When I'm onsite at Fashion Week, I just use my sketchbook and Micron markers.
I'm Meagan Morrison. I am a New York-based fashion illustrator.
The minute I looked up the phrase "fashion illustration," which I honestly had never heard of, it was like a world that just opened up to me.
I was like, This is it. There's no better-suited profession for me.
Fashion illustrator is really about, you know, taking you out of the literal plane and sort of continuing you into the imagination of fashion.
When I'm home, working in my own space and doing sort of final pieces for clients,
I kind of do a bit of mixed media, I...from inks, water color, acrylic, colored pencil—all of them combined to some degree.
I love texture. I love color. I think those are sort of signature to my works, my final pieces.
Um, and then I obviously scan and put it through Photoshop,
and clean up the images to send to clients.
I built my client base really through the multitude of channels that I had access to and could promote myself through,
and Tumblr has been, you know, amazing this season.
This is the first time that I've done any sort of partnership with them—just incredible and so, so rare in New York.
It's a very interesting time now because illustrators are not the traditional illustrators that they once were.
It's much more of a hybrid of... I have a...you know, a large social media following.
The projects that I'm being put on vary between, like, how much they wanna just use me for traditional art and how much they wanna use me for the social media part of it.
You know, this struggling artist thing should not be what it was, I guess, in the past.
Well, we have to start small. And be honest with yourself.
Life can be so short. Your happiness and your life is up to you.
Anyone who wants to do art in general, and, also, Tootsie Rolls
because you need to keep your blood sugar up when you are making artistic genius happen.
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