Victoria Decembert, also known as Vicki Decem, is an upcoming BFA Illustration graduate student. Her body of work focuses on surface design and fashion illustration. She loves to create work centered around things like the ocean, astronomy and astrology, along with with other dreamlike elements. Decembert utilizes saturated, complementary colors in most of her work and aims to combine her illustrations with fashion in a unique way, as these are her most desired fields of work.
It is difficult not to recognize Decembert’s whimsical style because of its unique traits. Oftentimes Decembert also illustrates drool-worthy foods and sweets using vibrant colors. As a self-proclaimed “color wheel enthusiast,” the fourth-year SCAD student’s work is always something to look forward to.
Illustrated as a mock fashion cover for the magazine Harper’s Bazaar, Decembert uses a complementary palette to make a vibrant piece, emulating the iconic classic French illustrator Erté’s work for the same magazine in the early 1900s.
This work was created as a part of an ad campaign for Decembert’s brand and features a color palette similar to the previous work, full of rich blues and purples to compliment the warm yellows and oranges. Decembert’s masterful techniques and use of color create a sense of wonder and whimsy to set the mood.
Done for a historical illustration course, “Golden Hour” is a surface illustration meant to tile as a perfect pattern for scaling. The man and woman are Decembert’s revamped designs of classic illustration characters from 1900s America, the “Arrow Collar Man,” popularized and created by J.C. Leyendecker and the “Gibson Girl,” created by Charles Dana Gibson, who are both meant to be visual representations of the ideal style for Americans during their time periods.
If you want to check out more of Decembert’s vibrant work, you can find her on her Instagram @vickidecem.