Cool mods and artwork. Your drawings remind me of the artwork in the original CARtoons magazine.
Wow those hot rod cartoon drawings by Millar bring back memories. But I really blame my style on my uncle who had the subscription to this magazine. He had a drafting table and his wall was filled with hot rod art and pin up girl drawings. He would mimic the style from Millars, Big Daddy Roth and Vargas. My uncle would get angry if he caught me using his drafting table and art supplies. Those were the good ole’ days and I was only 5 years old then. I must have done every step-by-step cartoon from those magazines that it’s imbedded in my hand. He worked long hours so by the time he came home, I’d make sure to put everything back in it’s place.
No one really draws like that anymore and with these new computer programs, who, needs paper anymore. I’ve also stopped drawing and over the last 10 years have have made only a hand full of drawings. Not like when I was a teenager and during my 20’s. I miss the sound that a sharp pencil point makes against paper. To have a vision in your mind and the only way anyone else can see it is to put it on paper. Time just didn’t allow it anymore but I need to reconnect and find a way to make time.
My youngest child ( age 6) has a natural act for art too. It’s amazing seeing her quietly focused on making crafts and cutting up construction paper with her little scissors. She has great had eye coordination. I’ve given her full access to my drafting table and assortment of pencils, paints, brushes, tape and markers. But she feels comfortable just laying on the living room rug creating art crafts. It’s where she’s been playing most of her life. I need to teach her what this drafting table can do. She is so amazed by my ability to draw anything she can think of. “How do you do that, how can you just draw anything”, she asks. It’s my tools I tell her.. with better tools and good materials. You’ll create good stuff. Maybe with a little more time invested in her, she’ll be able to draw anything. Chris