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katy Perry is cute and writes some good songs, so she gets a pass from me as far as artists go. rock on dear lady, rock … on
Through a friend of a friend I ran across facebook photos of local burlesque dancer Ginger Snapps. I always liked Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s posters . but it is hard to find models who are comfortable with thier bodies enough to be a good subject. People tend to get worked up by drawings like this. I am not sure why. I guess that is why I am an artist vs an accountant or politician. There are only so many bowls of fruit and robots a person can draw before it becomes boring. People that draw will continue to draw weather you want them to or not. So at least let us draw something we like … any how…. I hope to keep creating things like this … they would look good in a home …
this is a drawing of a hawk or eagle smiling… it was done with an ink pen on a piece of paper. Line weights were hard to control but most people just used a rapidiograph of varying widths to achieve the differences. there was no %800 percent zoom, so you couldn’t draw anything vanishingly small. In illustrator you can zoom in 3200% or some other ridicules number. This flys in the face of logic. The human eye is unable to see anything that small. it blends shapes together. I imagine someone could create an image that was meant to blend together but that would be a novelty and not the norm. As you can see the points on the corners aren’t laser sharp. things aren’t tweeked to minute perfection. Lines are put approximately where they should be. The computer allows one to move lines after they are put down and move them some more and again and again. creating a cycle of infinite changes. This allows the designer to second guess himself. and second guessing your art means death. None of it makes perfect sense. Hopefully someone will look at it. but other than that it captures a place in time when someone thought this looked cool.
I am always interested and amazed to see what people come up with. From the simplest scribble by a child to a labored over illustration, it tells alot about who made it. A peek into their subconscious mind. I guess that is why people are afraid to create art, they don’t want people to see the real person behind the mask. and that is the ultimate shame.
Like this:
I never had much use for this low brow art form … partially because it is hard to do and puts your work up to the scrutiny of everyone who looks at it. “that doesn’t look like him!” “I look like that?” “my nose isn’t that big” etc…
but I inherited this task from Fedi the previous staff illustrator. Part of being creative is allowing yourself the space to fail. This is vital to the creative process. When ever you are doing something new you can’t predict if you will get it right the first time, so you need a space to fail. So if you do fail you can try again, and again until you do it right.
Sudsy Malones was a bar/laundrymat in clifton a suburb of ohio. Basically they would book anyone. If you showed up on any given night you and your buddys could play there. Every band started there. We would get up there, to play on a tuesday night for a few drunks and people doing laundry and knock over cymbols, fall over the drum set, break strings, while trying to play our songs we just wrote. I remember playing the opening chords to a song I wrote then forgeting the first line and just staring out at the few people with blank in my head …
but eventually you learn from your mistakes and build up your skills, better then you ever could in a practice space. It was a reality check, but not a complete death if you failed. This space is hard to find at times. Mostly you have to create it in your head.
This is where I was when I started the caricature deal. I had never done one before, but can draw so I just needed to apply my skills to this. I take longer then the people who do this everyday at kings island, but I also ad color and have more specific props … anyway
most artists have a self portrait, I have done some from memory, but never taken the time to create a “real” one. I would find it somewhat narcissistic. To longingly stare at oneself in the mirror, trying to capture ones likeness. ultimately though I need to create some likeness for myself for use online. In chat programs and resume’s etc. I can hardly stand to look at a photo of myself, so illustration is the way to go. I find people are little too real in photos. You can see it in peoples eyes. sometimes their face is smiling, but their eyes have no soul to them. A fake look to them. when I really want to know someone, I look them straight in the eye. some people look away, some people stare right back. some people have a sadness to them you can only see in their eyes. It makes me wonder what they are missing? Or what has created this condition.
As a culture we rely on words too much. People have rehearsed lines and jokes to make them appear happy or sad or smart, and most people accept those as reality, when their eyes tell a different story.
We are animals who can’t speak, but say everything.
simple line art,
the face they had looked like death….
“hey bart, can you make this look better?”
bam bang bing…
here ya go!
the left is the live lines in illustrator using the brushes to varey the line weights… the right is the expanded version so you can scale it and color it without it changing…
simple lines make a pretty face
