Georgie Ravenscroft has been sketching and doodling all her life. Her interest in art continued to develop throughout childhood and beyond. “I took Fine Art at GCSE level and then decided to put all my eggs in one basket by doing an extended diploma in Art and Design at college, followed by a BA in Illustration at Brighton University,” she explains.
Georgie has always been passionate about fashion, but it wasn’t until a friend approached her about covering London Fashion Week that her illustrations went from animals and nature to etching out the new “it” girl. “My friend saw the art work I was creating and asked if I wanted to come to London Fashion Week and be an illustrator for the Digital Team,” she recalls. “I’d never really drawn people before, but I gave it a go [because] I had always loved fashion and the creative sphere around it.”
At LFW, Georgie followed a schedule of the show and was given the task of creating about 6-7 illustrations a day based on the looks coming down the catwalk. “I would attend the shows, take pictures of the looks, take them back into the office and draw from them. From there the images were posted across Fashion Scouts social media accounts.”
Today, Georgie has a plethora of illustrations featuring ladies wearing a range of styles and exhibiting current trends in the fashion world. “The models and fashion photography that usually captures my eye is new contemporary styling, clothing that has patterns or graphic components and models that aren’t posing,” she says. “I definitely prefer a more natural, more relaxed look to my work, and that starts with the inspiration.”
