Subjects that are Difficult to Draw: Purty Goils
I AM DEVOTING a detailed posting on the subject of themes that many artists find tricky-to-draw:
---this next one is more than likely THE PRIME EXAMPLE: the Universal Subject of 'attractive young women' : a theme that is understandably one of the most appealing subjects around to many artists [male and female alike, that is] : but the reality here is that MANY artists---including many undoubtedly very talented people--------are just not that good at tackling this subject at all: and indeed a great many perfectly good and talented artists---professional and gifted amateur alike-------deliberately AVOID this subject altogether........
For Example; many cartoon-art enthusiasts reckon that the comics Legend Ken Reid [artist of Jonah/ Faceache/ Frankie Stein and many others during the height of creativity in British Comics] was the absolute best -ever comics artist in the UK...and possibly even the World! [it IS possible, in my view] ---but even HE freely admitted that he avoided drawing women as he never felt comfortable on this subject...and yes indeed, his archive of work attests that the vast Majority of his characters are very male............I only ever located just one drawing of an attractive lady he done---it was pretty good, by the way.
Leo Baxendale was yet another well-known trail-blazer in the UK comics scene who drew extremely well: but even he sometimes got another artist to add in good drawings of women into at least one of his 60s ODHAMS strips! [allegedly]
---not only that, on a British Cartoon forum I was on, it has to be said, that out of all the talented toonsmiths on there, not one of them was really all that good at drawing attractive young women: believe me, I was always looking out for this theme.......a lot of very good artists depict women almost as /men in wigs' at worst [it's easier to draw women like this, because it is just a variation on the same theme, the exact same approach as in drawing guys ] or at best, many good artists draw 'sexy women' that look more like muscular women wrestlers----------many of these have a really harsh look, like as in some streetwalkers.
----and in fact, looking through almost the entire back catalog of 2000 AD comic, it is evident that even many really good figuritive artists [those who draw in a more 'realistic' style opposed to a cartoon one] fall into the same bracket: there are loads of dodgy depictions of supposedly attractive young women, whom presumably were intended to appear more 'wholesome-looking' but turn out looking really unrefined.
Here is a list I have prepared of comics artists who I reckon are pretty good at drawing this subject: firstly, in the 'funnies':
DUDLEY D WATKINS
KEN H HARRISON [Watkins re-imaginist on Desperate Dan and the Broons]
CHARLES GRIGG [definitive Korky the Cat artist, 1960-82]
BARRIE APPLEBY [the artist behind DANDY favorites Cuddles and Dimples: the only fairly recent addition of good 'women' cartoonists].
------not a lot really, now is it?!
The absolute TOP UK comics artist good at drawing women is, for me, at any rate, one IAN GIBSON of 2000 AD comic: absolute top-notch ability from Ian, over many thousands of poses of attractive female characters.
Other really good 'women artists' over at 2000 AD included Brian Bolland and Jesus Redondo. Gibson is easily the best out of the Tharg canon in my view at least.
---ME: I am not claiming to be a top-drawer 'drawer of sexy women' but I reckon I am relatively OK....I am not afraid to tackle this tricky subject, which is half of the battle.
Here's a rough I just done of my cat-babe VERONICA: I'll be adding the finished version in full color on here before long, with more observations about drawing effective attractive women:
---Proportions of the chest , etc will be fixed later by me in post-production, as always......in fact the proprtions are already adjusted, but I wanted to show the original rough.
So stop, er....tittering, you in the cheap seats!
---this next one is more than likely THE PRIME EXAMPLE: the Universal Subject of 'attractive young women' : a theme that is understandably one of the most appealing subjects around to many artists [male and female alike, that is] : but the reality here is that MANY artists---including many undoubtedly very talented people--------are just not that good at tackling this subject at all: and indeed a great many perfectly good and talented artists---professional and gifted amateur alike-------deliberately AVOID this subject altogether........
For Example; many cartoon-art enthusiasts reckon that the comics Legend Ken Reid [artist of Jonah/ Faceache/ Frankie Stein and many others during the height of creativity in British Comics] was the absolute best -ever comics artist in the UK...and possibly even the World! [it IS possible, in my view] ---but even HE freely admitted that he avoided drawing women as he never felt comfortable on this subject...and yes indeed, his archive of work attests that the vast Majority of his characters are very male............I only ever located just one drawing of an attractive lady he done---it was pretty good, by the way.
Leo Baxendale was yet another well-known trail-blazer in the UK comics scene who drew extremely well: but even he sometimes got another artist to add in good drawings of women into at least one of his 60s ODHAMS strips! [allegedly]
---not only that, on a British Cartoon forum I was on, it has to be said, that out of all the talented toonsmiths on there, not one of them was really all that good at drawing attractive young women: believe me, I was always looking out for this theme.......a lot of very good artists depict women almost as /men in wigs' at worst [it's easier to draw women like this, because it is just a variation on the same theme, the exact same approach as in drawing guys ] or at best, many good artists draw 'sexy women' that look more like muscular women wrestlers----------many of these have a really harsh look, like as in some streetwalkers.
----and in fact, looking through almost the entire back catalog of 2000 AD comic, it is evident that even many really good figuritive artists [those who draw in a more 'realistic' style opposed to a cartoon one] fall into the same bracket: there are loads of dodgy depictions of supposedly attractive young women, whom presumably were intended to appear more 'wholesome-looking' but turn out looking really unrefined.
Here is a list I have prepared of comics artists who I reckon are pretty good at drawing this subject: firstly, in the 'funnies':
DUDLEY D WATKINS
KEN H HARRISON [Watkins re-imaginist on Desperate Dan and the Broons]
CHARLES GRIGG [definitive Korky the Cat artist, 1960-82]
BARRIE APPLEBY [the artist behind DANDY favorites Cuddles and Dimples: the only fairly recent addition of good 'women' cartoonists].
------not a lot really, now is it?!
The absolute TOP UK comics artist good at drawing women is, for me, at any rate, one IAN GIBSON of 2000 AD comic: absolute top-notch ability from Ian, over many thousands of poses of attractive female characters.
Other really good 'women artists' over at 2000 AD included Brian Bolland and Jesus Redondo. Gibson is easily the best out of the Tharg canon in my view at least.
---ME: I am not claiming to be a top-drawer 'drawer of sexy women' but I reckon I am relatively OK....I am not afraid to tackle this tricky subject, which is half of the battle.
Here's a rough I just done of my cat-babe VERONICA: I'll be adding the finished version in full color on here before long, with more observations about drawing effective attractive women:
---Proportions of the chest , etc will be fixed later by me in post-production, as always......in fact the proprtions are already adjusted, but I wanted to show the original rough.
So stop, er....tittering, you in the cheap seats!
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