The Invisible Artist

Mar 27

Fixler's Law -

• “EXAGGERATE: If it’s sort of straight, make it very straight. If it’s slightly curved, make it very curved. It’s better to have an over exaggerated drawing, than a boring unexaggerated drawing.”
• “When drawing a pretty girl, she needs to look like a pretty girl right away, in your drawing. Making her look pretty later will never work.”
• “Did I ever tell you the story about Lenny Steckler?…”
• “RELATIONSHIPS: The big relationships will create the smaller ones. Everything has a counterpoint relationship. If you draw one side of the arm, you already know how and where to draw the other side without even looking.”
• “SIMPLIFY!!!”
• “CHEAT and look at the model.”
• “Why don’t you just tie your hands behind your back and make it even harder.”
• “Fixler’s Law: The iris is always half the size you drew it.”
• “It’s the edge that counts, not the shading inside.”
• “Get the big shape.”

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Mar 18

Sketch from photo.

Mar 17

Sketch from photo.

Sneak peek at upcoming volume of Blab World #1, published by Last Gasp.

Mar 03

Marceline Day

Don Shank

Pearl Frush

Hubert de Lartigue

Detective World

Feb 02

Betty Page, from a photo by Bunny Yeager.

Jan 12

Underpaintings: Defining Beauty: Dr. Stephen R. Marquardt -

“Marquardt, through his foundation, Marquardt Beauty Analysis, has theorized that the highly visual human race has imprinted in its genetic code an archetypical image of what its fellow human beings should look like. The closer someone comes to matching that subconscious ideal of ‘humanness,’ the more positive emotional response will consciously be engendered in the viewer, and attraction will follow.”

Jan 10

Vargas: Venus on a half shell. 1937.

Jan 03

Dec 24

Note to self: take your time. Do it over and over again until it looks right. It’s better to have drawn one good thing than a hundred half-assed sketches.

Dec 22

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