I like to create a mood and then kill it with a machine gun

[secondlina]

We artist be giant teases, amiright?

Pity I don't have a female model I can command around like this.

I don't draw from life often. As a matter of fact, I always kinda sucked at it and hated it. Too used to draw things from my head. But once in a while, there's this one, extra-complicated pose that annoys me. So I tell my boyfriend to strip down to his underpants and torture him. For art.

Also...



A few of the French artists I follow online did these amazing re-tellings of Popeye for the "24 hour comic jam" at the Angoulème festival this year. Many of these are GEMS. If you can read French, give it a go... [link]

I just wanted to add my own Popeye and Olive to the mix.

Trying out some new coloring tricks with this piece. Oh, the background texture is a print by the Japanese artist Hokusai.

Comments

[neocloud9.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, nice. :)

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

ZING.

[pip25.livejournal.com]

"Well blow me down!" ;D

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

I see what you did there :D

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Having fun with different art styles, too, I see. ;) It's not a perfect solution, but a lot of artists have a mirror on hand to help, probably when they lack an actual model. Or heck, you can get one of those cool little wooden models. They amuse me far too much! (I always pose them when I see them in stores.)

[brendala.livejournal.com]

I love those little wooden models! Even if they're not much help for complex poses.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I hate those wooden models. I feel like it's the biggest scam in artistic history. *laughs* The wooden models can help you master proportions, but when it comes to innovative poses, I find them rather useless.

I use a mirror a lot, actually. And Link when I need a boy-body :D

I actually spend a lot of time just drawing people on the subway too. Good practice.

[spankingfemme.livejournal.com]

LOL! Poor Link :P Although it is always boss to be able to get them to obey such commands quickly *eyebrow wiggle* XD

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

I HAVE THE POWER.

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

LOL, poor Linkage. Of course, I'm sure there's a visceral pleasure for you as well, eh?

And I must say, I love the new technique you tried! Very lovely! And I think Popeye looks weird (in any art form), mostly due to his body shape. Glad to see Olive Oyl with some meat on her bones though!

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Hahahahaha yes I secretly enjoy being evil a lot...

Weird bodies are SO much fun to draw though. :D

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

Yes, I can tell you do...


;DD

[brendala.livejournal.com]

You'd think he'd have learned by now to expect this kind of weirdness when dating an artist.


That Popeye drawing is awesome. I think you made Olive Oyl WAY too curvy to be recognizable. But I understand why you did it (her regular noodle-body would look too sick/emaciated in a more realistic art style).

My French is terrible, but I had no trouble navigating the website you linked (the layout is easy to figure out even if you don't know the language). Some of those drawings were....bizarre. But at least they were creative.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

This isn't even the most weird it gets. *laughs*

Well, I tried to give popeye muscles, so I figure Olive deserved some boobs and hips. It's only fair!

Ahahahah, yeah, a few of those comics are a little odd. There's one that is a sex comic even... *laughs* I was all like "People think popeye and olive are hot... okkkkayyy". They were a pretty popular couple in the titjuana bibles, back int he day!

[amelia-seyroon.livejournal.com]

Aww, Popeye and Olive!

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Yup! :D

[transientkarma.livejournal.com]

It's FOR ART OKAY. Mind you, you might get a little more posing than you were aiming for when you boss them into nakedness LMAO.

aww it's Popeye and Olive! :D Much more attractive than I remember them.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I get some pretty confused looks sometimes too when I start poking his muscles to see all the curves in them and re-draw it.

They have a lot of potential cuteness!

[angelchan-2004.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha! He probably gets all sad, "Why fore there is no nekkid times?"

I really love the soft coloring in this one<33

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I think a lot of guys wouldn't mind standing around in their underwear, even if they didn't get anything else out of it.