panic attack #5

She took 9 days to draw, day and night. I’ve never labored so hard for a drawing, or lost so much sleep for a drawing in my life but then again I have big plans for her. 

I’m going to start a crowd funding page for pencils and Xanax. 

The problem with photographing large scale drawings is no matter the quality lens, lighting, filter, or angle, to grasp her full arrangement you have to see her in person. I hope to display all my girls sooner than later.

18x24 graphite dust-dancer (Sarah)

I took this photo before finishing her ballet shoes and adding the dust. I still have a few minor additions to this drawing but it’s pretty much finished. 

Last year I had this idea for postcards. Not the cheap “Wish you were here” snail mail postcards found at tourist pit stops on the boulevard. I mean artistic cards meant for framing and hanging. Originally I wanted to use models, ala artsy black and white photo noir, but the neurotic artist in me would have “a serious fucking moment” every time a model decided to entertain creative differences. 

I absolutely love the look and style of these photos if only she was covered up a little more and posed more elegantly.

I’m not going to debate the obvious differences between art and pornography. If you can’t differentiate between the two,

my darlings, than you’re doing at least one of them wrong. 

Regardless

Etsy, where vintage smut goes to die a slow painful death at $3.99 a print. 

Pinup artists today have evolved with the times. They have their niche and a strong loyal following. I, however, am not a pinup artist, likewise on the opposing end of that scale I’m also not commercially exploitable. I am, as I always have been, as I always will be, unbranded.

My goal is to use original fine art, my art, with a vintage postcard look. I have this idea...

Vintage, Renaissance, fine art...  

I’m heavily influenced by Renaissance sculptures, who, along with my 7th & 8th grade art teacher Mr Dale, got me into drawing in the first place. Artists like H.R. GIGER showed me how to stretch the dimensions of graphite. That what computers cannot do.

After all, and most importantly, there is no substitution for art made by hand.