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here is an illustration of a milkmaid for a yogurt brand. They ended up going in a photographic direction so this goes on the scrap heap. So many of my drawing are for getting across a concept, and don’t actually make it to press. In this case they already had a milk maid they were using and wanted to stick with that…. this is a girl I work with named Jenny Pohlman. She graciously posed for a reference photo then I drew this version from that photo. Line art is easier to reproduce than photos for many reasons. I have always loved line art over photographs. I like to see the lines, the thicks and thins. where the artist puts a dot to represent an eye or a shadow. there were some masters of this art form who are lost to time. Line art is the basest form of illustration. And is the cheapest way to produce a representation of something. Mostly line art is relegated to instruction manuals and back panels. But it can also be the most communicative. A line art illustration can speak to any nationality. There is no language barrier. If you look at lego instructions they are all line art with no words. So they save money by not having to translate their instructions. When I was young I used to build plastic models of various things. I would get the box of parts, and a sheet of paper. With that you could assemble a replica of an old biplane, or a modern jet, a tank, a car or a ship. then you could study the miniature, and see where the people would interact with the object. and imagine it in action. Many times i looked into the box of parts and thought “how the hell will I put this together?” Start with step one, then two, take a break, step three, until you got to the end of the sheet. and before you would be the final product. Almost anything can be accomplished using this method. before you can become what ever you want to be or go where ever you want to go you always have to start with step one.
here are some plans for a model airplane.
basically you glue little balsa wood sticks together over the drawing
and assemble it in 3 dimensions, then cover it with japanese tissue and it will fly.
so your drawing can become what ever you draw…
in the 30′s the model airplane hobby had like 3 million kids doing this.
this generation of kids grew up to make the lunar modul and fly to the moon.
hmmm, our kids are raised by two working parents, and watch t.v. all the time
what will they grow up to be?
parenting is the most important job…
one of my older hobbies is building models, I have fallen away from it as of late, but it is a great way to study objects in three dimensions. You can’t really pick up a ford stock car and look at the muffler system, but you can study a model of one. That is why accuracy is important in model making. Also you get the sensation of being a giant.
This is a CD single cover I created for a song I recorded called “lets fight”. The box I found on ebay and stripped in a gray background, then altered the type to read what I wanted. by the time I was done, the whole thing seemed boring so I let it go and never did anything with it. I find I need some production savy people to take my ideas and run with them. I run out of time or interest sometimes to make something out of art like this. Oh well now I am bored with this post…
oh yea one more note, the fight song was recorded on a ampex four track tape machine, the same kind the beatles recorded on. it is the size of a refridgerator, but that is a whole other post… it looks like the thing at the top
