SKETCHAVEMBER 2011 Day 12: Biba

Day 12 of Sketchavember ended up becoming some sort of classic movie bender day. (Translation: Turner Classic Movies has quickly become one of my favorite TV channels. Throw in a PVR and I'm a happy camper.)

One of the movies I watched today was Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times". I've always had a huge love and appreciation for silent films and today's drawing kind of reflects that. Also a strong influence for this drawing is one of the photographs in Kevyn Aucoin's book "Making Faces" in which he and Kate Moss recreate the look of "The Biba" (as in the 60's era London boutique). Here's the photograph in question.

Heh. So all in all, I drew some psuedo-fan art of Kate Moss (even if I don't have any particular feelings about her) today. That's Sketchavember for ya! ;-P

Andie

ATTENTION: Colossal art dump still in progress.



Y'know how I've been trying to make an effort in trying to draw more dudes that look like dudes? Well, I decided to toss all that out the window and attempted to draw a lad in the spirit of all those androgynous, doll-like glam rock boys of the 70's and early 80's.

I couldn't help but OD on the music of David Bowie and T. Rex (especially "20th Century Boy") while working on this. I also had a lot of Kevyn Aucoin's makeup books (particularly his "New York Doll" and "Damsel Primitif" looks in his book "Face Forward") in mind.

I have the feeling that Andie has confused sexualities and broken the hearts of girls and guys everywhere he's gone.

The text around the border says "You can look at me, you can touch me, you can caress me all you like but I will break your heart."

SKETCHAVEMBER Day 3: Sultry

EDIT: Got rid of that annoying smudge.

Day 3 of Sketchavember brings me my second contribution.

It was originally going to be a costume design but it started getting much, much too big so I decided to shift my focus on something small and simple that would also give me a little practice in a few departments...

-Inks
-My Pentell brushpen (but I had to use a few other multiliner pens for certain areas but the brushpen was used for a good bulk of the image.
-Different perspectives of the head.

Kinda had sultry sex symbols like Bridget Bardot on the brain here. Just wanted to draw a good haughty little pout. ;-)

Was I on the mark or hopelessly off? Let me know. ;-)