Hi, I’m Christian Breil
I am a designer, graphic illustrator and narrator. My favorite material is first and foremost: Pencil.
I love it how an idea fluently flows through my hand on a piece of paper. I love to draw people in motion, movements of bodies and garments and I love to give a human face that sparkle of liveliness.
For coloring I prefer oil crayons, ink, aquarelles and of course: Photoshop.
Recently I was asked to illustrate a graphic story, ROZSIKA, taking place in Berlin in 1938. This project contains a lot of scenic setting.
I am showing here excerpts from the process of this work that is to be released in 2020.
My drawing career started the day I was born – I cannot remember myself not drawing. At school I wasn’t an A-grader in art class because I wasn’t staying in the margins, but always breaking out of them. My parents took this as a compliment and supported my passion.
After a childhood of piles and boxes of drawings and aquarelles and a few won drawing-competitions I somehow landed at fashion-school. I assume my love for drawing figures and my admiration for dance-moves were a great help to figure out seam-lines and silhouettes for clothing.
In 1998 I spent a year in Florence and Milan, Italy. But I didn’t like the exploitation of the fashion-system there so I went back to Germany where I became a copy-writer at a PR-agency in Cologne, Germany. Here I was responsible for the art-direction of an entire B-to-B-magazine for Elizabeth Arden, the New York cosmetic company.
In 2002 I opened my own fashion-boutique with a business-partner to make sure we can sell our very own creations – independent from all dictates of fashion. I wanted to transport the line of my pencil and the dynamic it created in the figures it drew into real life – into clothes. Over all these years I never stopped drawing, searching for the perfect line.
In 2017 I opened a new shop with my husband, Israeli music-producer Royal Fia. This time we made it a cradle of creative expression in music, clothes, illustrations and much much more.
The world is the way you look at it! Have a Look!
Xxx Christian