While working on a new business pitch for Y&R, I did these little New Yorker-ish line drawings. They wanted a kind of New Yorker direction... and I'm not sure that I can actually show anything from the new biz stuff... But these were a few of the drawings that spawned themselves while waiting for input from the art director. Always loved black line and solid black, so strong, graphically.
-Bill
On a side note: Obama was blue, because he started off as the multi armed Indian God, "Kali." It was going to be another little gouache portrait, with the necklace of skulls, and the heads of "The Axis of Evil" on His belt. A very time-consuming illustration abandoned temporarily for paying work; And maybe abandoned permanently now that someone did the same thing (kind of) on the cover of NewsWeek.
While working on a new business pitch for Y&R, I did these little New Yorker-ish line drawings. They wanted a kind of New Yorker direction... and I'm not sure that I can actually show anything from the new biz stuff... But these were a few of the drawings that spawned themselves while waiting for input from the art director. Always loved black line and solid black, so strong, graphically.
-Bill
The other day, I was playing around with doing some little gouache portraits. Have not been called on to many of them lately, and they were never a strong suit for me, so a good thing to practice on. I picked a sort of Pop-Surreallist style for this little portrait of Lady Gaga, because it seemed to fit conceptually. Sort of the new madonna in a way. anyway, thought I would share. Always good to try something new.
Gouache on Watercolor paper, 5''x7''.
