illustration friday: daring
I had a bunch of ideas for this one, but found the simplicity of this little tightrope walking girl, to be the most appealing. I was thinking up all kinds of way’s to make her doubley daring, but I kept it down to the bare minimum in the end. Although I did keep in mind that for women to have jobs at all in the earlier parts of this century was definitely daring, so her vintage look is certainly on purpose. Actually, one of my discarded idea’s was for her to be wearing some kind of suffragette sash, which would have been neat, but would have cluttered up the image. I like to keep it subtle.
April 22nd, 2005 at 8:44 pm
Your flapper girl is very cool ! Those kind of stunts that were done between tall buildings were awfully dangerous and such antics were finally banned. This is ‘Daring’ indeed ! Great job !
April 24th, 2005 at 7:46 am
like how you did this, nice !
April 24th, 2005 at 12:04 pm
her costume is enough to portray her era, great job! if you get the chance, pick up “ascension”, a fabulous book about a highwire family act in the early 1900’s.
cheers,
kerry
April 24th, 2005 at 12:27 pm
Yeah, looking back on this I’m happy that her costume is so very turn-of-the-century, even though my personal illustration style tends to lean towards mid-century-modern. I think It gives it a wee bit of tension. And it isn’t technically historically incorrect - whose to say there wasn’t a childrens book from the sixties, about a circus in the teens?
April 27th, 2005 at 12:24 am
it is cute.. I like it..
Have a great week..:)