In the wringer: still breaking in my new brush
The brush is beginning to do what it’s supposed ‘ta. Basically, it needs to be a little roughed up.
Did a double feature with a buddy last night, “Design for Living” and “Trouble in Paradise.” Miriam Hopkins and Edward Everett Horton, above, are favorites of Lubitsch, and favorites of mine. Gary Cooper and Frederic March used to be the attraction, but I gradually began to appreciate these two as the real soul of the films.
Hopkins and Horton are experts of the double-take. This one below is from Trouble in Paradise:
All these images are done by ink and brush, scanned, and then retouched digitally.
October 14th, 2007 at 4:23 am
I love these illustrations. Makes me wonder what your cartoons would look like with a brush.
Two great flicks too, by the way.
October 14th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Is “Design for Living” the film in which one of the characters says something like “Immorality might be fun, but it will never replace three square meals a day”...or am I way off base?
October 14th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Yes! “Immorality may be fun, but it will never take the place of one hundred per cent virtue and three square meals a day!”
October 14th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
For some reason that line has alway stuck with me…well, sort of. Thanks for answering!
October 15th, 2007 at 8:53 am
Well, it sounds like the kind of good American common sense one is tempted to subscribe to in order to avoid any kind of disapprobation or risk, doesn’t it? But I’ve always said, who needs three square meals a day? And it would appear that virtue is fattening! Two meals and one small breakfast is a healthier regimen.
October 15th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
“it would appear that virtue is fattening”
So, it could be said that chubby chasers are doing God’s work?
October 16th, 2007 at 2:33 am
I’m just saying Americans seem very virtuous!
October 26th, 2007 at 9:17 am
hello,
I like your illustrations a lot. They are very animative and lifelike. Where do you get your inspiration from?
Kind Regards,
From a designer – Damion DEGRAFIK