Bearable

All That I Can Bear

Unibrow 3

Unibrow 2

I'd drawn quite a bit but my Mac is experiencing difficulties, so I was unable to save it. Here's a redux based on a screen grab (I was smart enough to do one when I realized I wouldn't be able to save the file). For some reason it's less detailed than what I recall, but no matter...

Unibrow

I got an email with some fashion pics in it, and this shot of a male model caught my eye. He wasn't attractive to me, but he was striking in that his bone structure - especially with his pronounced brow bone and unibow - made for interesting lines.

(G)Old Standards

Butterick, Vogue Patterns, non-editorial magazine illustrations: those are the fashion illustration standards I grew up with in Manila. The lower-end fashion styles were seen as desirable, especially since they actually illustrated for a customer the actual dresses and clothing before the bought into it. Not the most advanced stylistically, but easy to understand, and they were my understanding of what was supposed to be good. What did I know, right? To this day, I still trive for that, despite knowing better. This was a quick sketch, not fully finished by any means, with that end in mind (hence the really prosaic clothing). I recalled a woman named Trining, who was the best illustrator that my mother ever hired, and who stayed with the New Yorker the longest. She became synonymous with the Gold Standard of what all illustrations were supposed to look like. I wonder where she is now? She was at least a decade older than me, maybe more.

Old Fashion(ed) Sketch

I pulled a pad next to me and actually drew in pencil! Nothing tot this sketch - just the usual shaping inspired by old fashion illustration. But the pencil didn't have enough intensity, must have been too hard a grade. (need to scan the sketch to upload it soon)