It Girl Pin-Up

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Recently I got to do a pin-up for It Girl and the Atomics, Round Two (here's Round One!) - the collected trade paperback by the stellar Jamie S. Rich. In stores this September!

After sketching out a couple of possible choices, I chose one with It Girl framing the picture.

I've recently switched from using a Pentel Brush Pen to a Silver Ultra Mini size 6 brush with India Ink, which so far has been an adventure. I love the skinny lines I can get with it, although so far it's taking me a lot longer to ink anything. I need to poke around and investigate what other brushes people are using with their ink to see if this really is the best one for me. Here's how the inks came out this time . . .

 

And the final colors!

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It Girl Pin-Up

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Recently I got to do a pin-up for It Girl and the Atomics, Round Two (here's Round One!) - the collected trade paperback by the stellar Jamie S. Rich. In stores this September!

After sketching out a couple of possible choices, I chose one with It Girl framing the picture.

I've recently switched from using a Pentel Brush Pen to a Silver Ultra Mini size 6 brush with India Ink, which so far has been an adventure. I love the skinny lines I can get with it, although so far it's taking me a lot longer to ink anything. I need to poke around and investigate what other brushes people are using with their ink to see if this really is the best one for me. Here's how the inks came out this time . . .

 

And the final colors!

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Summer 30-for-30: Day 13

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Once again, a surprisingly difficult pose for me to mimic. I think it has something to do with the whole chest-up-ladies-out-chin-down combination that I'm struggling with. I have no idea how Bettie makes it look so natural. One of my favorite things about seeing the variety of Bettie poses is you can really tell how athletic and muscular she was. Models of that era really strike me as having the dancer's physique. As opposed to now, where slim, slim, slim with little to no muscular definition is in. Bettie looks like she's going to step off this platform and go do a backflip.

cardigan - Gap, belt - Doubledutch Boutique, shirt/skirt - H&M, shoes - Steve Madden

Summer 30-for-30: Day 11

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Few images are as hot as Bettie's leopard print poses. Effortlessly going from lovely to vicious to Queen of the Sexy Jungle, these might be my favorite simply based on the reckless abandon with which she attacks each pose. Since I am not a formidable amazon of the rainforest, I chose one of her calmer, warming up poses to mimic. Jungle Queen Lite, that's me. Shirt - H&M, belt - Doubledutch Boutique, Jeans - Gap, sandals - Steve Madden, necklace - Express