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Fashion illustrator Cheryl
Hoffman's images are adored by women of all ages for her gorgeous
use of color and her keen attention to the details of modern lifestyle,
current fashion and vintage glamour. Illustrator Jennifer Rapp, former
publisher of Pulp Couture, calls them 'decidedly feminine, yet sophisticated
and artful'.
Cheryl started out as a graphic design
graduate from San Diego State. She began life in the OC as an art
director and soon became restless. She spent some time at a magazine
in Laguna Beach where she found out that the glamorous life of fashion
photo shoots wasn't quite it either. After a little bit of identity
crisis and lots of journaling, she thought it might be fashion design.
Although she still dreams of making clothes for herself one day, sewing
turned out to be a talent she wasn't born with. Waitressing wasn't
one of those talents either. While taking a course in fashion illustration
and reading The Artist's Way, she began drawing. It turned out that
drawing clothes might be it.
Today, Cheryl is a very happy illustrator
living in Los Angeles with her husband Shem. She does various commissioned
projects including magazine editorial and book covers in addition
to developing collections of artwork for licensing.
She also publishes a stylish line of illustrated paper products, which are
always printed with painstaking attention to color. Most of Cheryl's images
are the stuff of daydreams mixed with details from everyday life. She writes
the sentiments for every greeting card, keeping in mind what she would like
say to her own friends, which makes for very personal treasures that are a
joy to recieve. |
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