COVERGIRL, PUT SOME BASE IN YO' WALK!!!

RECENTLY I WAS ASKED TO DRAW A FEW RUNWAY READY LADIES FOR A FASHION ILLUSTRATION PROJECT. THESE FOUR CATWALK STALKERS WERE THE RESULT. THE CLOTHING IS FROM (L to R): VERSACE, ARMANI, LANVIN, AND COSTUME NATIONAL. I THINK THEY ALL TURNED OUT CUTE, BUT I REALLY LIKED MY VERSACE GIRL, SO I MAY USE HER (AND HER BIG BOUNCY HAIR!) FOR ANOTHER PIECE LATER.

*GASP* I JUST REALIZED I DIDN'T USE ANY EXCLAMATION MARKS IN THAT POST, SO HERE YAH GO !!!!!!!

QUITE A HANDFULL

I HAVE COVERED MY INTEREST IN FABULOUSLY OVER-WORKED MOTHERS BEFORE ON THIS BLOG, BUT THIS ONE IS A SPECIAL ADDITION TO THE LIST. THIS DRAWING OF A DONNA KARAN CLAD LADY-ABOUT-TOWN (OK, IT'S DKNY FROM THE MID-90'S, WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE!?) WAS THE 1st I DID OF MY FASHIONABLE-MOTHERS-WHO-ARE-TOO-TOO-BUSY-FOR-THEIR-KIDS SERIES. BUT FOR SOME REASON IT STAYED TUCKED AWAY FOR YEARS, UNTIL I DISCOVERED IT THE OTHER DAY AND SCANNED IT AND WHIPPED UP THIS GEM. I THINK THE LIL' CROSS-HATCHING HERE AND THERE AND SCATTERED WORDS IN THE CELL-PHONE BLAST TURNED OUT FUN, WHAT DO YOUUUUUU THINK???

p.s. I USED WAY TOO MANY DASHES ( - ) IN THIS POST, NO?

THE WELCOME WAGON

WHEN I AM DOING A FASHION ILLUSTRATION, MY INSPERATION FOR THE DRAWING IS USUALLY WHATEVER ODD, OFF, UN-FASHION RELATED THING I FIRST THINK OF WHEN I SEE THE CLOTHING. I THEN TAKE THAT ODD THING, MIX IT WITH THE OUTFIT, AND THAT IS HOW ART IS MADE, KIDS!

THIS PIECE IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THAT. I SAW THIS MICHAEL KORS SWIM SUIT / CARDIGAN MIX FROM THE S/S/ 2011 SHOW IN THE NEWSPAPER AND THE 1st THING I THOUGHT OF WAS ONE OF THOSE CHEAP PLASTIC GRASS LOOKIN' WELCOME MATS WITH A SAD PLASTIC DAISY STUCK TO IT. THAT'S NOT TO SAY THE KORS SWIMSUIT IS SAD AND PLASTIC LOOKIN', BUT IT'S THE SAME COLOR OF GREEN AND WAS KIND'A TERRY CLOTH-ISH (THOUGH PROB NOT TERRY CLOTH) SO I THOUGHT, GREEN SWIMSUIT-HOT-SUMMER-GRASS-PLASTIC GRASS-CHEAP PLASTIC GRASS WELCOME MAT!!! IT TOOK YEARS OF COLLEGE EDUCATION TO GET THIS TRICKY FORMULA DOWN, TRUST ME.

DON'T MESS WITH MOTHER NATURE

NO ONE ROCKS A GIGANTIC HAIR BARRETT LIKE MARVEL COMICS' VERY OWN INHUMAN PRINCESS, CRYSTAL. MAKING HER 4-COLOR DEBUT IN FANTASTIC FOUR COMICS #45 IN 1965, CRYSTAL IS A SWEET YOUNG GIRL FROM THE HIDDEN CITY OF ATTILAN, A METROPOLIS FILLED WITH SUPER-POWERED FREAKS AND WEIRDOS! CRYSTAL IS ABLE TO CONTROL THE FOUR ELEMENTS: FIRE, WATER, AIR AND EARTH. THAT ABILITY MAKES HER FIT RIGHT IN WITH HER BUDDIES THE FANTASTIC FOUR.

HERE I'VE DONE A RE-DESIGN OF HER COSTUME. I'VE CHANGED HER COLOR SCHEME FROM YELLOW AND BLACK TO BROWNS AND ORANGES, EARTH TONES, TO SHOW HER TIES TO NATURE. I ALSO ADDED THE CIRCLES MOTIFS AS A SORT OF 'CIRCLE OF LIFE' REPRESENTATION. PLUS I JUST LIKED THE WAY IT ALL LOOKED!

NOW IF ONLY PROJECTROOFTOP.COM WOULD PUT IT UP ON THEIR SITE I'D BE A HAPPY MAN!!!