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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 …
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.
“oh dear, I hope the internets doesn’t find out about this!”
“although I shouldn’t have been looking at sexy scrap metal web site again”
“the internets are indeed a source of evil, for the lonely robot”
believe it or not photos you see in a magazine are made on purpose, the props, the person, the colors, the action, the placement of the hands, every molecule is considered before the camera is even set up. Sometimes they are more spontanious but in high end photo shoots where everyone is paid by the hour, time is literally money. So to make those photo shoots come off without a hitch it helps to have a good layout sketch to start with. So agents can shop for props, models can be cast, usage rights negotiated. It is all business. I never thought I had an opinion about the color of lunch meat before, but apparently I do. Lunch meat and most foods are best shown in warm colors with some soft focus almost romantic and sexy. nobody wants to put something gray in their mouth, but something soft and warm, that is the good stuff.
