autodeconstruction

[egypturnash]

autodeconstruction

This was drawn on 17x14 paper. I would have liked to have a smaller image, but the wispy lines and little details would've vanished at smaller sizes.

Also, my hair is currently purple, not red, but you have to do these sorts of things for the image sometimes.

Comments

[tyrc.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of a number of posters tracerj and I were just admiring, actually..

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Probably ones drawn by Al Hirschfeld, or by people trying to look like him. Like I was in this one! *grin*

[tyrc.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. Yes, *thats* what I was looking for. I was trying to place an artist it reminded me specifically of, but was a bit clouded by all the Deco era show posters with similar lines, if more clutter than even this..!

[jonasbagel.livejournal.com]

AWESOME.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

This is one of the things drawn thanks to your advice the other day, too. *grin*

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

As I said on dA: I love the self-referential writing. Also, I envy your lines so much. I can't do that.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I'd say that AI makes the lines easy (which it does) but most of my pencils were just as bold and confident - just not so much with the thick-and-thin. It comes from a lot of time drawing fast. And large, with the whole arm, rather than resting the heel of the hand on the paper and just moving the fingers.

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

I've actually never thought about putting the whole arm into it. I always seem to neglect anything but the muscles in my hand when I'm drawing. Maybe I should try it sometime, though. My AP art teacher probably told me to do it at some point, but I was too busy splashing and blowing ink on paper and making pretty designs. ;)

Give me a bottle of ink and my whole body is going to get into it, but that's another story…

[kamenkyote.livejournal.com]

I really feel Hirsch in this, though it's really not like his work that much at all. Lovely, flowing lines, simple color scheme, and you know I'm looking all over for your "Nina!" Quite lovely.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I was going to say it is, but then I pulled out Hirschfeld On Line and realized it's not - this is me doing my mental caricature of Hirsch, of what draws me to his work. Almost every single drawing in this career retrospective book contrasts blocks of pattern against line, while I'm focused almost entirely on line.

Limb-as-two-crossing-calligraphic-lines is definitely something I swiped from him, though.

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

I really like this.

[luoto.livejournal.com]

Very beautiful! Reminds me of chinese or japanese calligraphy, like the brush had danced across the paper...(Thanks for introducing Al Hirschfeld to me b.t.w!)

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Like most commercial artists from the twenties, Hirschfeld was influenced by Japanese prints; there were a lot of Asian crafts floating around the West for young artists to glom onto. His economy of stylization also comes from Russian posters of the time, and from the artistic traditions of Bali. And from the medium, really; cheap newsprint responds better to sharp economy than it does to subtle washes!

And one of my major sets of influences is... commercial art of the early 1900s. I keep on dithering about heavily researching Asian print masters: sometimes it's good to go back to the pure, undiluted stuff, sometimes what you arrive at by extrapolating second-hand impressions has its own beauty.

[luoto.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the information on Hirschfeld! I will absolutely look
for more of his art on the web, it is really cool. I have always admired artists that can work with a "minimalistic elegance" (like You!)

[jenkatb4u.livejournal.com]

*just teasing*

Now finish it.

[doctorpinkerton.livejournal.com]

NICE!

[euphoriel.livejournal.com]

You are quickly becoming one of my favorite artists of all time.

Of course, this reminds me that I need to try to finish something to fulfill a meme for you. I think you may need to settle for something is writing from me instead of something drawn.