How to create your best fashion illustration portfolio?

A portfolio is the visual resume, intended to communicate to a potential client / employer what you are capable of and the caliber of your creative work. A portfolio, should constantly be kept up-to-date with your best pieces.

Here are some tips from our Guest Writer Robert Tirado, which may help you to build your well done portfolio. We simply admired Robert’s portfolio. We find it very powerful and very well organized. You’ll also see it bellow both in print and pdf version. Enjoy!


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Fashionarium ‘s Contributors

From Time to time we invite some awesome talented people to write guest posts on Fashionarium. Here is a short description of who they are:

Jennifer Lilya - Fashion Illustrator

Jennifer Lilya has been illustrating fashion since the early ’90s after graduating from FIT.  Lilya is a freelance fashion illustrator now and lives in Brooklyn NYC. Her clients include ELLE, WWD, Timex, Katy Perry, Stila, Sephora, Travel + Leisure, California Closets, and many more.  

 ”My love of runway sketching has afforded me opportunities to work with magazines, ad agencies, fashion designers & graphic artists. I specialize in traditional fashion illustration, but with a modern edge & witty hand-lettering. All of my work is done in acrylic paint & black ink on paper. “

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Robert Tirado - Fashion Illustrator & Teacher at Instituto Europeo di Design

Represented by:  Lemonade illustration agency

Robert Tirado is an illustrator and graphic artist, professor of design of the “Istituto Europeo di Design”, * FDI * Madrid.

His style is characterized by mixing a wide variety of digital and manual techniques, mainly inspired by female beauty, fashion and photography, supported by the geometry, art and music.

Among its clients are advertising agencies, art galleries, musicians, clothing brands and print media magazines such as Glamour, Playboy, fossil, Courtney Love, Gavroche, Distintiction gallery, Top laptop.
Tirado has had the opportunity to exhibit his work in major galleries in America and Europe, including London Miles * London *, Nucleus gallery * LA *, * LA * New Puppy or Art Basel Miami * *.
His works have been published in books like “The great big book of fashion illustration * anova books, UK * and” Back to the roots * Belio, Spain * … as well as in prestigious magazines like Computer Arts UK, Territory magazine, Belio, Kurv, juxtapoz * online *, among others.
Teaching experience for over 8 years, currently teaches portfolio, sketch and color in the schools of product design, interior design and fashion “IED” * FDI, Madrid.