Yellow Sundress: Fashion Illustration Friday (Split City)
Hello! Today I'll share a fashion illustration with you. It's also a location illustration. I wondered whether I should place it in Travel with my Art series as well. I have a few regular art series on my blog. Travel with my Art is a series where I illustrate locations and places, while Fashion Illustration is a series where I (as you would expect) share my fashion illustrations. If you browse my early post, you'll see that I have always shared my fashion art on my blog, just the names of the series changed, sometimes it was Fashion Illustration of the Day, sometimes Friday Fashion Illustration and sometimes something else. Sometimes I illustrate my own outfits, sometimes other bloggers or runaway looks, and sometimes I post my own design creations. I've illustrated clothes ever since I was a little girl and like a lot of girls, I played with paper dolls of my own creation. Landscape illustration is something I started doing more in connection to fashion illustrations.
Is there a difference between a landscape painting and illustration, or painting and illustration in general? Well, there is, even if it the lines between what we consider and an illustration and a painting are somewhat blurred at times. Both painting and an illustration can be made with the same media, but still there is a tiny difference in meaning. Painting is usually a more stand alone piece, connected to the concept of fine art and illustration is probably less connected to fine art, and more connected to some idea or subject.
If you browse the Internet, it'll tell you that an illustration usually accompanies (for example an article, a product, a film and so on) or represents something specific (an ad for a product for example). Some art media are more associated with illustration (for example ink, watercolour or watercolour pencils ) and some more with painting (oil painting). Illustrations are usually done more quickly than paintings. However, there are no exact rules. You can make an illustration with oil paint and a painting with ink. Fashion illustration as a subgenre of illustration follows the same logic. Fashion illustration is usually illustration of a garment, more or less details. It is not usually focused on the person who is wearing the clothes, but it can also try to capture the personality of person. It depends on what the subject of fashion illustration is: the wearer, the clothes or both.
I'm a bit undecided on the subject. Do you want to weigh in? The argument for making it a part of Travel with my Art series would be that it does depict a location. The location is park Mertojak in Split city, Croatia. I have actually already featured this park in Travel with my Art series. I painted an acrylic painting with the view from this park. That painting captured the view, the trees and the seaside. I liked how it was possible to get the feeling that you're somewhere on the island, just looking from a higher place in the park.
This illustration does capture this park. It captures the tree, the shade and some other stuff. However, to be honest, the park was an afterthought. I first sketched the dress and the pose and then when I was done with that, I decided to add the location as well. So, maybe it is just better to simply call it a fashion illustration. Now, most art that was posted in Travel with my Art series was more a painting than an illustration, but some of it could also be called an illustration.
I work with different art mediums. However, looking back I think that the majority of my paintings were made with art mediums connected with painting, and the majority of my illustrations made with art mediums associated with the illustration. However, I also made quite a few paintings and illustration with unexpected media. I made fashion illustrations with oil paints, for example. I mean also painted and illustrated with old make up or different materials. Rules are there to be broken as they say. This is especially the case in the art world. It is important to learn the rules because you can not make art without knowing how. Nevertheless, following your artistic version can often mean breaking the rules.
“None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God at the dawn of creation looked upon the work of his hands.” Saint John Paul II
How is fashion illustration different between regular illustration?
Well, it is not a rule written in stone, but fashion illustration usually used ten instead of eight heads ration. In simple words, fashion illustration often uses elongated style. Of course, you can do it any way you like but it is sort of a general look. Traditionally, it was done to make fashion illustrations look more interesting. I sometimes use the elongated look and sometimes I go for more realistic proportions. It depends. Sometimes I make my fashion illustrations quite realistic, sometimes not at all.
Let us get back to the subject of this particular fashion illustration. The medium is watercolour pencils on sketchbook paper. The paper is not exactly quality stuff, I bought this sketchbook in Teddy for a few euros. It serves its purpose, though. I made quite a few sketches with it. The watercolour pencils are Steatdler, neither sponsored nor affiliate links, though. It was the first brand of watercolour pencils I tried and being happy with the quality and price, I just sticked with them. I think that all the watercolour pencil illustrations and drawings posted on this blog are by the same brand.
Anyhow, the making of this one was pretty standard job. I sketched it with watercolour pencils. I started adding in more and more details. As I said, I decided to add the background as well because it seemed like a good idea. I wanted to capture that Summer feeling. The feeling of happiness upon finding a nice shade and hiding from the merciless sun. Your girl is not really an AC girlie, and I prefer the outdoors even in the Summer. So, a city park is my natural habitat when I want to get some air and get out of the sun.
I have been under the weather ever since the Summer started, I got over a bad virus and I do not feel I have recovered fully. Still, with less time and energy to go wondering about, I have more time for blogging. I have been working on a number of illustrations and painting. The progress is slow, as always when life gets in the way but I am doing my best.
Anyhow, once I done with the drawing and sketching, I applied water. The usual process with the watercolour painting, just what you expect. Painting with watercolour pencils is a pretty straightforward process. At least I always found it so. You can add more or less water, depending on what you are trying to achieve. I used the watercolour brush that came with the packaging of these particular watercolours.
I have always found watercolour pencils to be very practical when on the go. I often carry them with myself when I am travelling. They do not take up much space and can be fitted in any bag. Moreover, you can also use them as regular colour pencils. You can draw with them and create drawings. So, they can serve more than one purpose.
For this particular illustration the watercolour pencils have served their purpose well. I worked on it during the course of two days and I was able to finish this one pretty quickly. I would say that it has probably taken me about two to three hours to start and finish this one. I did not exactly timed myself, but it was a quick job. It was neither difficult nor challenging to make this fashion illustration. Sometimes it is good to make something that will not burn you out.
The outfit I illustrated was something I have worn recently for a walk in the park. It was an extremely hot day but I could not stay in the house any longer, I had to go out. So, we went to Mertojak park, one of my favourite parks in Split city. We walked around and took some photographs. I used one of the photographs my husband took as a reference for this fashion illustration. I will give you more information about my outfit in a bit, first a bit more about the location.
You cannot see it just from this illustration but this really is a nice park. There are multipurpose sport courts, and an open gym. There is a school near by, and in vicinity there is also a pumptrack park. This park is considered a park of this park. Either that, or it is also called Mertojak park because it is in the same neighbourhood. Anyhow, the pumptrack park is only a few minutes away from this lovely park. It is located near a church, so there are also some lovely religious murals here. One of these murals I will show you soon enough. However, first let us have a look at something else.
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| Art by: Ivana DžidiÄ Photography by: Goran DžidiÄ |
Above is a little collage where you can see my fashion illustration zoomed in, and below is a painting I made with a photograph reference I took myself some time ago. You can check the collage below to compare the reference and the painting. I like how in this park there are areas that make you feel like you are not in the city at all. At the same time, from some directions the skyscrapers are very visible.
I wrote a bit more about this place in my article titled The Brutalist Beauty of Split Sunset, that could also be named, The Beauty of Brutalism. In fact, I am considering elaborating on that one and writing a new article and calling it The Beauty of Brutalism. Personally I am a fan of the brutalist architecture in Split city dating to the eighties and the seventies. Neighbourhoods like Split 3 were thoroughly planned and the architects in charge of the project did a great job. These neighbours are planned with the human inhabitant in mind, proving that brutalism is not necessarily alienating. These neighbourhoods are extremely people centric. In fact, these eighties neighbourhoods are superior in many ways to the newer ones. and consequently more in demand than the newer neighbourhoods. That is why flats in these kind of neighbourhoods sell from a quarter to a million euros to half a million euros. Some go up to a million, depending on the size but generally speaking, these neighbourhoods are pricy. Average price per square meter is from five to six thousand euros and will probably just go up. Split in general is very expensive when it comes to real estate, but these brutalist neighbourhoods are more expensive than the newer ones. A lot of negative things can be said about communism, and it is certainly the most stupid of ideas, but the architecture was sometimes solid. Communist made it easier for many to have access to affordable and quality housing.
As I wrote in my post, there are many wonderful modern brutalist neighbourhoods worth mentioning such as Split 3 (with its newly extended University Campus), Trstenik (with its signature white skyscrapers) and Žnjan (that is not restricted to the namesake beach but rather a whole neighbourhood) and Mertojak that is a continuation of Split 3. Now, some parts of Žnjan are new and are not as nice, but it is what it is. I grew up in these neighbourhoods and learned to appreciate the architects who designed them, one of them in particular: Dinko KovaÄiÄ. I just love how he and the others designed streets that not only respected the Mediterranean cultural need for constant socialization but strived to enhance that experience.
Since this illustration does kind of capture the feeling of this place, I will share the Travel with my Art links but I'll wait your judgement on whether it should be added to the series or not:
#1 PALERMO ISLAND SICILY #2 BAY MALA STINIVA #3 IRKUTSK #4 MATEJUÅ KA #5 HVAR CITY #6 ZENTA MARINE #7 ZAVALA #8 SUCURAJ #9 MALA STINIVA #10 HVAR TOWN #11 JELSA TOWN, DANCE OF THE SAILS #12 ZAVALA #13: SUCURAJ LIGHTING HOUSE #14: BAY BRIZENICA #15 BAY LOZNA #16 BAY VEPRINOVA #17 BOL #18 PLANINICA #19 SUCURAJ, BOATS AT PORT, #20 BEACH SOLINE #21 STARI GRAD, VIEW FROM HOTEL ARKADA #22 MAKARSKA BOATS #23 ZAVALA BEACH PANORAMA #24 ŽNJAN BEACH WITH A MOUNTAIN BACKGROUND #25 JELSA #26 ZAVALA BEACH BAY #27 MALA STINIVA IN SUMMER #28 TRAVEL WITH MY ART, BASINA BAY #29 TRAVEL WITH MY ART, BAY TORAC AT SUNSET #30 TRAVEL WITH MY ART, VALETTA, ISLAND MALTA #31 CAPE PLANKA #32 QUICK ZAVALA SKETCH #33: LOZNA COMISSIONED #34 BOTA SURF CENTRE #35 BEACH KAMENJARA #36 A COMISSIONED CHAPEL PAINTING MOSTAR #37 A SEAVIEW FROM A PARK #38 BUNA CANALS #39- STJEPAN FORTRESS BLAGAJ # 40 A VIEW FROM MARINE LUÄICA
Split is my home city and I love it to bits. My identity is linked with its sun soaked streets and ancient mosaics. Split was featured in one of my latest book review post (alongside Jelsa). You can have even a better look here in another post that featured a cherry print dress but this time a white one. Have a look at this post where I shared a couple of outfits and some art collages. Speaking of art... Known places I illustrated in Split city include:
ZENTA MARINE MATEJUŠKA, SPLIT CITY (CROATIA) //, SPLIT CITY (CROATIA) / ŽNJAN BEACH, SPLIT CITY (CROATIA) // A SEAVIEW FROM A PARK (SPLIT, CROATIA) // PHOTODIARY: EN PLEIN AIR SKETCH// OIL PASTELS VS. WATERCOLOUR PENCILS (SPLIT, FIRULE ) // FASHION AND LOCATION ILLUSTRATION (SPLIT)
In case you want to know more about beautiful Split city, I can direct you to many posts I have published about it.
Now, that we have talked a bit about the location, my city and all, let's get back to the outfit in question. You know that I love to tell stories with my clothes. Yes, it is time to tell my sustainable fashion files. Tell you how I wore these items before, where I bought them or got them as a present and how these items fit my sustainable fashion philosophy.
I bought this dress in a second hand shop nearby! I bought a couple of other dresses as well. This second hand shop sells clothes by kilo, so when it comes to dresses that weight practically nothing, you can get them for next to nothing. So, was the case with the few dresses I bought. I paid very little for all of them. Of course, just because something is bought second hand does not make it automatically sustainable. What makes it sustainable is more about how you live with your clothes that is how often you wear the clothing items and take care of them.
Sustainability is not something you buy or that you can buy. It is how you live. Sustainability in fashion is about respecting the clothes, the craft, the worker and yourself. Shopping addiction is like any addiction, something that should be treated, not celebrated. Consumerism as a way of life will never be sustainable, no matter how you dress it up and how many eco labels you add. What is use in shopping sustainable brands, or shopping second hand, if the shopping itself is still excessive, if the production of clothes is so fast that the second hand shops become dumping grounds? Vintage clothes are perhaps the only truly sustainable clothes, taken that they are purchased with sustainability in mind.
There is no alternative for shopping our closet. Second hand shopping on its own cannot solve the problem of fast fashion. If second hand shopping is extensive and obsessive, if people donate clothes after wearing them once or twice, we will have the same problem. Consumerism is a serious problem that no amount of secondhand shops can solve. Consumerism ends where consciousness begins. The change must come within. The change in how we approach the world and the environment.
In the words of a very wise man
“The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.”
* St. John Paul II
Sustainable Fashion Files- What stories do these clothing items tell?
The black and white straw hat (no name)
I think I bought this straw hat in 2024. I have worn it many times since then. Below you can see some of my stylings:
The straw clutch bag (gifted)
This is not actually a clutch bag. It is actually a make up bag. I got it as a present from one of my students. So, this is the first time I have worn it as a bag. I think repurposing things and upcycling is really as sustainable as we can get. This can be a great idea for travelling. If you want to travel light and don't want to pack many things, why not use your make up bag as a clutch bag?
The brown platform heeled sandals (no name, old)
This is the sixty-first documented wear of these sandals on my blog. How many times I have really worn them? Who knows? I still have many unpublished outfits with this pair.
The pale yellow floral maxi dress
This is the first time I have worn this dress, but it won't be the last! Well, in reality I have already worn it twice, but I didn't took photos of each wear. Still, you'll see it on blog again.
I mentioned some murals, didn't I? Well, there is a mural of Saint Pope John Paul II, that is Saint Karol JĆ³zef WojtyÅa. Consequently, my outfit matched perfectly with the mural that is painted with yellow, white and black. Not that I planned it. It was just a happy coincidence.
I was there when WojtyÅa help mass on Žnjan beach in 1998 (not far away from here). A really memorable day. I've read a couple of his books, some as a teenagers, some later on, and many things stayed with me. I'm sharing some quotes I find interesting, not in an effort to promote a certain religion, but just as something that I personally find touching and inspiring.
Here are some quotes from St. Pope John Paul II:
1) “It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness;
He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you;
He is the beauty to which you are so attracted;
it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life;
it is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.
It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives,
It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives,
the will to follow an ideal,
the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity,
the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.”
Saint Pope John Paul II
This is obviously a religious (or spiritual) quote, but it can also be read as striving for something greater. Not everyone who strives for something greater is religious. Some people who calls themselves atheist are less preoccupied with material things that people who call themselves religious. There are no rules, really. People sometimes mean different things when they say the same words. People's words isolated do not mean much. People often hide behind the words. Words become labels, divided into good or bad. However, words get their true meaning in the context. We get our true meaning in our life. Whether someone calls oneself an atheist or a believer means absolutely nothing sometimes. We are all known by our actions and deeds. Sometimes words can be meaningful, but often they can be cheap.
2) “True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.” Saint Pope John Paul II
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I like this quote because it speaks of the relativism of our modern society. Everything starts to be about consumerism, making corporations more powerful than governments, intermixing marketing and sales with our everyday life until we stop noticing that we have sold our privacy.
Of course, morality of the society is never perfect. Tradition can be a form of prejudice, and religion can close as many minds as it opens. Still, the modern 'anything goes' mantra is horrible and inhuman. In every situation, there is a choice. Often it is a choice between good and bad, or between bad and worse. It is never all relative.
3) “Ask yourselves, young people, about the love of Christ. Acknowledge His voice resounding in the temple of your heart. Return His bright and penetrating glance which opens the paths of your life to the horizons of the Church’s mission. It is a taxing mission, today more than ever, to teach men the truth about themselves, about their end, their destiny, and to show faithful souls the unspeakable riches of the love of Christ. Do not be afraid of the radicalness of His demands, because Jesus, who loved us first, is prepared to give Himself to you, as well as asking of you. If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.” Saint Pope John Paul II
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This quote seems to echo that thought- A lot is expected from a person who is given a lot.
3) “Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself—so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.”
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4) “Love is never something ready made, something merely 'given' to man and woman, it is always at the same time a 'task' which they are set. Love should be seen as something which in a sense never 'is' but is always only 'becoming', and what it becomes depends up on the contribution of both persons and the depth of their commitment.”
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5) “No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he wants. This is the moment when the impassable frontier between him and me, which is drawn by free will, becomes most obvious. I may not want that which he wants me to want - and in this precisely I am incommunicabilis. I am, and I must be, independent in my actions. All human relationships are posited on this fact.”*
*Saint Pope John Paul II
6) “Could God have justified Himself before human history, so full of suffering, without placing Christ's Cross at the center of that history? . . . But God, who besides being Omnipotence is Wisdom and--to repeat once again--Love, desires to justify Himself to mankind. He is not the Absolute that remains outside of the world, indifferent to human suffering. he is Emmanuel, God-with-us, a God who shares man's lot and participates in his destiny.”
“God allows man to learn His supernatural ends, but the decision to strive towards an end, the choice of course, is left to man's free will. God does not redeem man against his will.”
Saint Pope John Paul II
Many years ago I read St. John Paul II Letter to Artists.
I did not think of myself as an artist then, but I loved art so I found his words inspiring. I'm sharing some of them today.
7) “Those who perceive in themselves this kind of divine spark which is the artistic vocation [...] feel at the same time the obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it at the service of their neighbor and of humanity as a whole [...] Artists who are conscious of all this know too that they must labor without allowing themselves to be driven by the search for empty glory or the craving for cheap popularity. [...] There is therefore an ethic, even a “spirituality” of artistic service, which contributes in its way to the life and renewal of a people.”
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8) “Every genuine artistic intuition goes beyond what the senses perceive and, reaching beneath reality's surface, strives to interpret its hidden mystery. The intuition itself springs from the depths of the human soul, where the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things. All artists experience the unbridgeable gap which lies between the work of their hands, however successful it may be, and the dazzling perfection of the beauty glimpsed in the ardor of the creative moment [...] is no more than a glimmer of the splendor which flared for a moment before the eyes of their spirit.”
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9) “What is the difference between “creator” and “craftsman”? The one who creates bestows being itself, he brings something out of nothing—ex nihilo sui et subiecti, as the Latin puts it—and this, in the strict sense, is a mode of operation which belongs to the Almighty alone. The craftsman, by contrast, uses something that already exists, to which he gives form and meaning.”
10)“In producing a work, artists express themselves to the point where their work becomes a unique disclosure of their own being, of what they are and of how they are what they are. And there are endless examples of this in human history. In shaping a masterpiece, the artist not only summons his work into being, but also in some way reveals his own personality by means of it”
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| Outfit worn on 3th of July, Illustration completed on 10th of July, 2026 |
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This is all for today. How are you all doing? I hope you are all well. I'm still somewhat tired, as I had off and on fever for weeks. On the upper side, I have quite a few posts coming out. Being sick gave me opportunity to work on my posts.
Thank you for visiting and reading!
Hello, Ivana! I like your yellow sun dress!
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ReplyDeleteThat yellow dress pops beautifully against the greenery! Since the background was an afterthought and you based the sketch on a photo your husband took of your outfit, keeping it strictly in your Fashion Illustration series makes total sense. Plus, it lets the vibrant watercolor pencils and the dress design take center stage. It is also really fascinating to hear your take on Split's brutalist architecture, especially how those planned neighborhoods from the seventies and eighties like Split 3 remain so human-centric and highly sought after today. Hopefully, spending some quiet time painting is helping you fully recover from that nasty virus. Do you think you'll stick with watercolor pencils for your next piece, or are you tempted to break the rules again with some oil paints or old makeup?
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading this because it shows that an illustration can carry so many layers, not just be a pretty image. I actually think this one fits both categories — the dress is clearly the first thing we notice, but the feeling of the place seems to come through as well, so maybe it doesn’t need to be forced into only one series. I also love the idea that clothes can tell stories and become connected with memories, places and moments instead of just being something we wear and replace. The part about sustainability especially made me think, because buying second hand is often praised as the solution, but maybe the bigger question is how we treat what we already own. What do you think — should art categories have strict borders, or is the freedom to mix them part of what makes art interesting?
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