Would You Rock This? (WYRT) features a collection of the very latest in contemporary fashion illustration. WYRT highlights some of the top fashion illustrators in the field today.  On the site we give you the chance to vote on and buy [illustrated] designs and concepts you would ‘Rock.’

WYRT came from many in depth conversations with people like you - students, illustrators, designers (industry trained and self taught), creative directors, and people from the advertising industry.  Like you, they wanted to know how their ideas ranked, with input from colleagues, consumers, and the general public.

WYRT is a social environment for illustrators and designers to showcase their creativity and get feedback using a crowdsourcing model.

Here's a step-by-step guide.

Menswear designer and illustrator, Brandon Graham, founded and created WouldYouRockThis.com in 2010.  He has made his commitment to the fashion community a central part of his career, maintaining an extensive network of industry contacts and working on projects to engage discussions about the interconnected business of fashion.

Graham apprenticed to Barrington Wisdom, at Barrington Custom Tailors in Cumberland, MD, as he began his studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.  He interned at Armani Exchange to further his education, then went on to work and consult for companies such as John Varvatos, Levis, Dockers, Nike, and Fila.

His work has been featured in Great Big Book of Fashion Illustration by Martin Dawber and Basics Fashion Design 07: Menswear by John Hopkins.

WYRT helps you sell your artwork and develop and online presence and following online.

Well, there is always that possibility. Let's face it - if you bring your portfolio to an interview, or take a class, someone can see and rip off your ideas there.  But WYRT believes that if you don't show your work, no one knows how talented you are.  So that can be worth taking the chance! Getting knocked off could happen if you show your portfolio on a job interview or on WYRT. 

You know what...  Watch this lecture by Johanna Blakley titled Lessons From Fashion's Free Culture.  She explains it best.

Obviously, a grandma wouldn't want to rock the skinny hipster jeans and shirt I just designed. WYRT will be adding more detailed analytics for all the illustrator accounts as we continue to develop the site.  Voters will fill out a short questionnaire asking their age range, favorite store, location, how much they spend monthly on clothes, etc. We'll gather that info for designers and illustrators to help you get a better understanding of your potential customer. You'll find out that your style of designing fits a certain demographic.  Please bear with us.  Those features are coming.

Voters do have the ability to leave comments below each sketch on the voting block.  Right now the comments section is the best place to get a read on who’s voting on your illustrated designs.

Oh, and don't be so sure about Grandma - we know some who would totally rock the skinny jeans!

IMMEDIATELY share your uploaded sketch to get the ball rolling by posting it on your Facebook, Twitter, blog, email, etc.  Click on MY PROFILE in the upper right hand side of the website.  Then, on the left you will see an ALL MY SKETCHES tab.  Click on ALL MY SKETCHES and underneath your sketch you will see the SHARE button with an envelope icon in blue that allows you to post your sketches on several platforms.

WYRT staff regularly curates the illustrations submitted to the site. The purpose of this is to keep the voting platform fresh with new art, help illustrators get the most votes possible, and keep the illustration quality at an appropriate level.  

Submissions could be removed from your gallery and the voting platform because we feel your illustration and/or design could use a little more work to be up to the standard that will give it the best possible feedback.  The more illustrations that are submitted the harder it is to collect and record a decent amount of votes per sketch because the pool of illustrations continues to increase.  So to keep the quality and content fresh and funnel more votes to illustrators we will be curating the site by being more selective of the illustrations on the voting block and setting certain guidelines.

To make a better WYRT experience for both voters and illustrators we will regularly be removing the following illustrations from the voting platform: 

 
+ Illustrations over a year old
+ Illustrations that contain copyrighted material
+ Photographs of clothing
+ Photographs of illustrations
+ Non-fashion illustrations  e.g.  portraits, prints, text, comic book characters
+ Illustrations uploaded incorrectly  e.g.  layout, size, and cropping issues
+ Duplicate uploads
+ T-shirt designs not on an illustrated figure
+ More than 3 figures on a page
+ Non-cohesive group of 2-3 figures
+ Flats (Illustrations NOT on a figure or croquis)
+ Illustration that seem incomplete, sloppy, or needs improvement.

There are exceptions to the rules which are subject to change without notice.  
We reserve the right to remove an illustration without notice that WYRT staff feels DOES NOT fall within the guidelines or is inappropriate.

We call this the voting logic.

The sketches appear in the following order:

1st     Featured Illustrators
2nd    Up & Coming Illustrators
3rd     Past Illustrators
4th     All Other Sketches

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Log in first.  Click on SUBMIT YOUR SKETCHES on the main navigation toolbar.  Scroll down a little and right below UPLOAD YOUR SKETCH heading click on the BROWSE button in blue to locate your illustration file.  Fill out the required description fields and select a ‘Season’ and ‘Category’ from the drop-down box.  Finally, click ADD NEW SKETCH.  You’re good to go!

Recommended image size:  390 Pixels X 510 Pixels

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Visit the Fashion Illustration Awards website for recent developments.