Nearly every native American tribe had it's own distinctive style of dress and the people could often tell each other's tribal indentities by looking their clothes, head-dresses and nemen taken. In most tribes, Native American men wore breechcloths ( a long rectangular piece of hide or cloth tucked over a belt, so that the flaps fell down in front  of the behind). Sometimes leather leggings attached in colder climates. In other tribes Indian men wore a shirt, kilt and fur trousers instead of breechcloth.
 American Indian ladies wore skirts and leggings but the length and design varied from tribe to tribe. Women always wore tunics and mantles in public. In other tribes women wore just one piece dresses
(Cheyenne buckskin dress ). Most tribes had some form of moccasin ( sturdy leather  shoe).

American Indian

The term American Indian is defined by the indigenous people of the area that is now known as  the United States. Over the last many hundred years, the American Indians have formed tribes, lived and prospered on this great land. They all shared an appreciation and respect for native American Indians and viewed nature as a gift from the Gods which should be revered and treated properly.

David Downton

David Downton was born in Kent, in the south of England in 1959. He studied at Canterbury ( Foundation year 1977- 1978) and Wolverhampton (BA hons illustration/graphics 1979-1981). In 1984 he moved to Brighton and began his illustration career. For the next 12 years - a period he describes as 'wagging my tail when the phone rang' - he worked on a wide variety of projects ranging from advertising and packaging to illustrating fiction, cook books and, occasionally, fashion.
 David Downton uses media's such as ink, watercolour and fine liner. He uses minimal lines to create dramatic effect and it makes his work look more realistic. I think David's work is slick and sophisticated and what I will take in to consideration is the way he uses shading with ink to create detail and the light lines and the contrast of light lines and think lines.

Illustration Boards

As I come to the end of recreating fashion illustrators work, I was to complete 4 of my own illustration boards which incorporated a design from my capsular collection. I enjoyed this part of the brief because I could use a media from a illustrator that I had looked into which I enjoyed using the most. I went with James Dinagan's media and created two of my boards with gouache and I also created two of my boards taking the media from Stina Perrson which was ink. I found this aloud me to get creative and to work with media's I wouldn't usually chose to work with. I would make changes to my illustration boards by taking more time in learning how to use these media's correctly as I seemed to have splodges of paint and ink all over my boards and not the correct shadings that I would have hoped for. But all around I was pleased with my work. The target market of my work didn't fit well with the media I had used, as I was aiming for high end high-street and the media wasn't slick enough or the layout of my boards, but the media and layout seemed to look more highstreet.