Sketch Charlotte

I finally finished up this sketch I'd made one afternoon a week or so ago. I enjoyed the slinky length of the maiden contrasted with her fabulously wide dress's hemline. She was inspired by an amazing artist from the UPA cartoon studios of the 1950s.

I spent lunch-time today with Dr. Martin's Bombay India ink in hand, as the breeze gently lifted the pages up in my sketchbook. Flying insets with pretty purple wings were buzzing around my eyes, mouth and sketchbook while I inked.

I discovered this amazing cartoonist from UPA, thanks to Amid Amidi and his fantastic blog and book on Cartoon Modern. The cartoonist's name is Lew Keller, and his work has blown -- my -- frickin' -- mind, which is no surprise given the amount of mind-blowing events I've experienced and tried to channel over the past months from UPA in general. Keller's women are amazing, and I wanted to channel that.

Thanks to my discovery of Gene Deitch and his amazing book of jazz magazine covers from Fantagraphics, I went on to discover 50s cartoon style in general, which led me to Amidi. I'm revelling in it. I recently got a collection of UPA cartoons on VHS, and it's amazing. Anyway, I was really impressed with the few web images I could find on Keller. His women are amazing, but then again everything I've seen from Keller is amazing. Lots of self-discoveries in ink transpiring. All totally cool 'n groovy, dig?