Beer Pinup

Gift for a friend who asked for beer + pinup girl :3

Holy bazolies is old ad illustration tough to imitate. Still didn’t nail it, and I'm not satisfied, but this reached the point where I was working it to death and needed to just let it go.

The difference in presentation of facial features in ads and pinups has really changed over the past 60-70 years. Rounder cheeks, softer jawlines…

On top of that, the skin in old pinups was painted in a way that… well, the lighting is really soft, and the skin color is almost uniform throughout the body, which went against my entire way of painting, so I had to really concentrate on how to apply shadows and such.

Still, it’s always good to stretch a bit and take on a challenge, I guess.

Brand title is hand-altered Lavanderia; subhead is in Deming; both are from Lost Type Co-Op.