What’s a cartoonist wearing (and drawing) today?
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I did this last year, too. I guess I always start the season off with what feels like the perfect outfit for a perfect first day of hot weather. Cool enough for outside, and warm enough for the subway or movies.
While I was at it, I found a job posting for J. Peterman calling for illustrators for their catalogue, and sent this drawing to them as part of my work samples. Because if there’s one thing I can do fast and easy, it’s drawing clothes. And it would be even more fun to be paid for it!
Cross your fingers!
May 28th, 2007 at 11:53 am
These look much better than the ones that J. Peterman have on their website. Good luck
yay for comments!
May 28th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Ah, thank you, Dylan. But J. Peterman weren’t looking for anything “better” than their own stuff. They sent me a document called, “How to forge a J. Peterman,” and asked me to give it another try going by their rules. What they want is someone to continue the tradition, making it look like one and the same person has been drawing those pics all along. So, I’m taking up the challenge, and I’m going to try again, in their style.
Very educational!
May 28th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
I somehow doubt that you’re the right person to just carbon-copy somebody else’s style… But if you’re happy with it, go for it!
May 28th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Being a cartoonist I guess I’m a sucker for the nice lines of the nib pen and the color wash over what looks like gouache in their catalogue.
May 28th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Wow! It’s great to have my comments working again!
Carbon copying, if it’s easy and pays well enough, is fine with me! And anyway, in the old days, an artist had to be able to carbon copy an established artist before he could strike out on his own. Art is like a language —some parts of it are like grammar that you use for your own creativity once you’ve mastered it. Then you can break the rules or even totally disregard it. As long as you know what you’re disregarding!
And yes, Dylan, I suspect it’s gouache in their catalogue. I used watercolors in my own drawings, but hopefully I still have the hang of gouache from my old Fashion Design days at Parson’s. I like it when those four expensive years actually come in handy and begin paying for themselves. (Particularly since only one and a half years of it were really worth the money!)
June 2nd, 2007 at 11:09 am
very cute drawings!
keep up the lovely work!
June 5th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Love the clothing illustrations. Good luck with J. Peterman. Sadly, catalog illustration seems to be a dying art.
June 8th, 2007 at 6:59 am
I think you’re a shoe-in (geddit?), Carolita, or should be.
I can’t believe Peterman is real! For years it was just part of Seinfeld to me, over here. Who’d have thought?
I love these drawings, they remind me of cut-out-and-keep paper dolls from comics like The Bunty (I drew one of pretend me as a Suedehead – but I changed the dates to appear younger).
Good Luck with the tryout, hope it goes well.
June 11th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Thanks Rod!
I’ve been trying to dig up my gouache paints! J. Peterman is obviously not suited to watercolors. I’m working on other things for the moment, and realizing that perhaps one has to take extreme joy and pride in reproducing things extremely realistically in order to do the Peterman job well. I won’t know till I actually try doing it by their rules, but for the moment, I’m finding my interest flagging!
In any case, I’ll post my first attempts to “forge” a J. Peterman as soon as I find my gouache! It looks like they have a roster of artists they use. They’re looking for more than one, and I can only assume that they rotate them due to the amount of drawings required for the catalogues throughout the year.