Horoscope Honeys Part 2

I'm letting air the dirty laundry on this post. There are some stinky drawings in here. All part of the process I guess. The stinky part.
Anyway, now that I've figured out my pin-up concepts for each horoscope sign, it was time to start the character designs. In addition to finding lots of personality profiles there were also tons of information regarding the physical appearances associated with each sign. You can see in my notes below I went a little crazy with all that information, but I think it really helped me to come up with unique body types for each character.



To help solidify my design thoughts and to make sure everyone looked unique, I drew this line up. Interestingly I found some information that ranked the bust size according to sign so I let it inform my designs too. I set the line up the same way, with Aries being the largest and Libra being the smallest. I have no idea if it holds any bearing on reality but it makes it fun at least.

Horoscope Honeys Part 1

I've always wanted to do a pin-up calendar, it's probably the most classic vessel for the pin-up that I can think of. Well I've finally gotten my chance to make one with Gallery Nucleus called Horoscope Honeys. It'll be a 2014 calendar and there will also be an exhibition and release party on June 29th 2013 at Gallery Nucleus.

I thought I'd take you through the process from the very beginning this time. It was my wife's idea to do a horoscope themed calendar, which I thought was a great idea. Since horoscopes are basically personality profiles, I thought it would be great to imbue each pin-up with the personality of each sign and try to come up with a pin-up concept that represents that character instead of doing the typical thing of dressing her up in the superficial trappings of that sign. For instance, I didn't want to dress up Taurus with bull horns on her head or have Pisces riding a couple of giant fish. Not that there is anything wrong with that, I've just seen it done before.

So I started to do a bunch of research and made lists of personality traits, then started to do thumbnails to search for the concept of the piece. I usually had to try to boil it down to one over-arching trait that would make for a clear pin-up idea. For instance Cancer became "the nurturer" and Leo became "the center of attention".

Here are all of my original notes and sketches. In future posts I'll take you through further steps of completion.

Spring is in the Air

I've done a small sketchy painting which will be for sale at Tr!ckster's "Spring is in the Air" show this Saturday March 30th at 6:00 pm. Hope to see you there!

2631 Ashby Ave, suite A, Berkeley, CA 94705
510-665-8900

In light of tomorrow's gallery show at Feelmore 510 I thought I'd post my rough drawings for the new pieces.

(click to see uncensored)






Here's an alternate to number 2 that I was thinking about.


And my color study.

Gallery Time

I've got a couple gallery shows coming up.
The first will be a small show at Feelmore 510 in Oakland California next week.

Feelmore is an, AHEM, adult gallery/boutique filled with the kinds of things you'd expect to find in such a place. It's very posh though, tastefully done. A classy joint to say the least.

I'll be at the show opening reception which is at 6:00pm Saturday February 2nd. The address is:
Feelmore 510 Adult Gallery
1703 Telegraph Ave.
Oakland, CA 94612
tel. 510-891-0199

The show is largely signed/framed prints but I did three new original nude pieces exclusively for it. They will be for sale at the gallery.

These are they. Click to see them in their not safe for work glory.







The original art measures 8" x 10" but I've matted them for intimacy as you can in the framed photo below. The matte opening is about 5" x 7".



My books, card decks and Banana Girl statues will be available at Feelmore as well. The show will run through July 30th.

I'm also going to have a larger show at Gallery Nucleus in June. I'm doing a pin up calendar with them. I'll post more about it later but for now you can read about it here.

Nude Banana Girl Sold Out

The very limited nude variant is technically sold out for all intents and purposes online. I do however have one more copy in my personal possession that I can sell to anyone interested. Shipping cost may vary though. If you're interested email me at bill@billpresing.com and we can work something out.

There are regular grass skirt versions still available but they are running down.

Happy Holidays!