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Akiko Kato Ruiz is a fashion illustrator and live sketching artist based in Los Angeles, Orange County, CA area. Akiko has worked with many companies/brands such as Hermes, GUCCI, MIUMIU, Target and American Express to name a few.
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Live Sketch for AQUA x Ava Phillippe Launch Event at Bloomingdales CA

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I’m honor to live sketch for Aqua x Ava Phillippe’s collaboration launch event at Bloomingdales Century City in Los Angeles! I worked Ava’s team before the event and Ava created the stationery design (how cute!).
As the collection is fun yet so beautiful, all the customers were stocked to try them on and purchased.

Below are some of the portrait drawings I live sketched at the event.

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Most of the customers I live sketched were wearing the collaboration pieces! Do you see I added their pet (dog and cat) on the portrait drawings :)

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fashion live drawing in Los Angeles, CA
fashion live drawing in Los Angeles, CA

It was such a fun event and I enjoyed drawing beautiful dresses! You should check the collection out if you haven’t!

Live Sketch for J.P. Morgan Chase Event

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live sketch event in Los Angeles, CA

I hope you are all doing well! I was in Japan for about two weeks and just came back about a week ago. Now it’s time to start working again here in Los Angeles, CA. The first live sketch I had was an amazing event for J.P. Morgan’s female business leaders in Woodland Hills, CA.

event live sketch drawing in Los Angeles, CA

I have several styles I can draw, and I drew an abstract face style this time to draw more people.

live sketch portrait for an event in Los Angeles, CA
live sketch portrait for an event in Los Angeles, CA

There were many business owners gathering at Casalena restaurant and I live sketched for five hours there. I’ve worked for numerous corporate events before, and always have a great time drawing professional individuals. Thank you so much for having me JP Morgan Chase and it was an amazing event!