A section from a W.I.P. ink I thought I'd have finished today. It's concocted from a group of pencil sketches I made in a restaurant in Par-ee. I've rarely worked this way before...and I'm learning it's harder to come up with a final look than I'd thought.
I look forward to your harshest criticisms!
Wow Marty! Extra nice. Every character is great. Really like the central blonde girl, her lips , expression and shapes. But the Bartender is the shit. Those great hands , all that lost line! Seriously, I bet Mad magazine would make a space for you. And I think they usually wait till someone dies. You ought to go with me to a CAPs meeting and show some of this stuff to Sergio Aragones.
ReplyDeleteThe only critique would maybe be the hand on the martini glass gets a little extra loose and maybe needs a more thoughtful attitude, caress of glass perhaps, but that's about it.
ReplyDeleteNo bad tangents. Great thumbnailing of the bar details. It's very alive with intruding cropped people parts.
How about the foreground (purse handle gripping?) hand. It might be missing something if that part goes missing. I can't tell. But you could experiment and lose it and see if you like it better with or without.
Just finished watching, My Gun Is Quick, 1957. Best version of Mike Hammer yet other than Kiss Me Deadly. Which I know Spillane doesn't like, but what does he know.
ReplyDeleteOoh! I gotta see that. I love Kiss Me Deadly!
ReplyDeleteIn fact, I say that phrase to Blair all the time....
Glad you liked where this is going. It's so different from my straight sketches from life--it's taking me some time to adjust to the different look.
Thanks again for the kind comments!
It's only a section? How much bigger is the full picture? I hope it's much bigger 'cause the only criticism I could possibly make is that I want to see more and more of all the great stuff you've got in here. What is catching the attention of the two women in the foreground? Who is the man on the right talking to so earnestly? I'd love to see a landscape of about a hundred such figures, each one different, each one telling a small story with their body language; interacting with other figures. I love the way the old guy on the left is leering at the young woman.
ReplyDeleteA lot of my critiques were made without understanding that I was seeing a portion of a larger picture. Looking forward to the pull back to the big version.
ReplyDeleteMy Gun Is Quick also features a lengthy traveling shot of 1957 los angeles highways. Awesome cars. Great time capsule.
ReplyDeleteInstead of kids in car seats , they were like me, sunning themselves under the back window on the speaker shelf behind the rear seats.
As a kid taking a long trip in the family station wagon was so much fun. Lying down in the way-back reading comic books and falling asleep under the blankets when it got dark.
ReplyDeleteSunning on the speaker shelf under the back window?? Ellis, that's CAH-RAZZY!!!
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ReplyDeleteI love the auto-reminiscences...when we were infants, my parents would put my brother and I in a small plastic bathtub, deposit us on the rear shelf of my dad's '67 Corvette, and then cruise the town challenging other hot cars to stoplight drag races.
We inhaled a lot of second-hand burnt rubber as children. And I mean that in a good way.
Robert Bray as Mike Hammer. He also played Timmy's Dad in the TV show Lassie. Dad's were tougher back then. But they were raising a bunch of Timmys.
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Marty, I'm having trouble picturing your bathtub situation. How do you put a bathtub with two kids on an inside shelf of a car? This calls for a diagram of some kind!
ReplyDeleteIt was a little, blue, plastic wash basin--like a large tupperware container. Perfect for washing varmits like ourselves--and a convenient child restraint in a pinch.
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