Friday, August 15, 2008

Zombie.

I’ve been meaning to show you one of my pin-ups for a while now. They were quite a treat and a revelation for me. I have always avoided drawing people because…well…they just never end up looking like people. Not to my satisfaction anyway. I sometimes will draw distorted cartoony children because hey, if their heads are too big, well who is gonna complain about that? But pin-ups are a whole other thing. And oddly, I kind of dreaded drawing them, even as I knew it was something I had wanted to do for some time now. So, here is “Dead Sexy” the first of the four pin-ups. I actually sold more prints of her than any of the others and one girl even bought one and came back the next day for another. She told me she had ended up giving hers away and wanted another. She also told me that she had shown it to a friend who was a pin-up artist who had commented that it was “demure” and not too gory or disturbing, which made me happy since that was exactly what I was going for.



In the end, I was very pleased with all the pin-ups and I discovered that I really, really enjoyed doing them. I am planning on another set of four girls and I think I am even going to try a few pin-up guys. Any requests?

3 comments:

Jodi said...

If you did a set for me: Viggo Mortensen, Hugh Jackman (sans shirt), Simon Pegg, and Ed Robertson. Tee hee!!!

Vanessa said...

What a fun idea. You are so creative and come up with the best cards. Great title for this pin-up.

Janet said...

Johnny Depp, of course!

you are talented!!! That'd make a great t-shirt :-)