Hey Bloggers! Just wanted to change it up today by posting some of my random doodles instead of the usual cafe sketches. Two things I really love are old pictures and books...They fuel the imagination and are really great inspirations for costume design and character details.
One site that I go to quite often is
SHORPY. They've got really great old photographs from different eras scanned in at super hi-resolution. I was scanning through the site the other day and saw these two pictures. For some reason, the book
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald went through my mind so I decided to do some doodles based off these two photographs.
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This could, perhaps be the book's narrator, Nick Carraway, the young 29 year old who is the neighbor to the enigmatic Jay Gatsby...
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Next up is this photograph of three women on a miniature car. Their hairstyles and carousing attitudes really spoke volumes and just made me want to draw them! As you can see from the drawing below, I pretty much took the pose of the girl on the left and tweaked it a bit...
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In Fitzgerald's novel, this woman would have been Daisy Buchanan, Nick's lively cousin, long believed to have been inspired by Fitzgerald's love affair with a Chicago heiress!
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She does look like a "Daisy" wouldnt you say! Hope you all enjoyed this post and be on the lookout for more!
2 comments:
Great sketches, and the new look looks good.
Chris, you've just made me a very happy man, that will lose several hours of his life to a vacuum-ous website.
I have a collection of all types of stuff from about 1910-1940's. It's a beautiful generation that produced a remarkable body of accomplishments.
And these characters certainly feed a multitude of story ideas.
See you round. thanks again for last semester.
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