MY WORK
The "My Work" title is a bit of a misnomer, as a number of the pieces here had part of their gestation period carried out on someone elses drawing board.
I have always been drawn to comics and love the simplicity of a lot of comic art.
In particular I have always been drawn to the "good girl art" of people like Petty, Vargas, Caniff and now the modern day "comic artists" like Dave Stevens, Adam Hughes, Frank Cho and many others too numerous to mention. Add to that the fantasy art of artists like Rob Larson, Chris Achillios, Barry Windsor-Smith and John Bolton and you get an awful lot of mixed influences and styles.
I was brought up in an era that increasingly leaned more and more towards photography as the principle "artistic" medium and so the merits of artists like Vargas, Elvgren, Petty and many of the other "pin-up" artists of the 30's, 40's and 50's, become forgotten and unrecognised. I was lucky enough to have an art teacher at secodary school who understood the quality of the work they had produced, and so I had my first introduction to this lost generation of comic and pin-up greats.
The recognition now given to them by the new school of "comic and glamour artists" provided me with some impetus to start sketching, drawing and painting once again. This was also driven by my move from just collecting comics to collecting, on a small scale, some of the original works by the artists I admired.
So, in this site you'll see a few of mine, a few of their's, and a few of my interpretations of theirs.
I hope you enjoy them, as much as I do.
Pat Kent