Tinkelman Sketches

More drawings, all these by Murray Tinkelman...not sketches per se, like those in the last master drawings post, but still, drawings. Without the distractions of color or extra dimensionality, a good drawing has an essential quality unmatched in any other medium. 

"Drawing is the honesty of art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad." - Salvador Dali

The two illustrations above are from Tinkelman's Lovecraft covers, done for Ballantine in the '70s. Here's a good article on Today's Inspiration, based on an interview with Tinkelman.

The rest of these are from Tinkelman's 1970 Bestiary; here's the 50 Watts article in which I found the majority of the images. 

Further Frazetta Sketches

More Frazetta sketches...I can't help it, I'm obsessed. Without the distractions of color or extra dimensionality, a good drawing has an essential quality unmatched in any other medium.  Nowhere is art more human, regardless of subject matter.

"Drawing is the honesty of art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad." - Salvador Dali

These few sketches (on the cream toned paper) are from a single page of Frazetta's sketchbook, presumably for sale. 

I have a rant about naked ladies and art, a rant which I will refrain from repeating here, but despite my serious boredom with sexed up art, I get the feeling that Frank Frazetta really liked women, of all shapes and sizes and dispositions. I like Frazetta's women because most of them have not only real hips and real bellies and real ten-days-on-a-murderous-jungle-rampage hair, but also real character. 

When they have teeth, they have teeth.

Master Drawings

For today, here's a small collection of drawings by three masters of narrative figuration, Frank Frazetta, Francisco Goya, and Jeffrey Catherine Jones. So much compression....so much information in so few marks....

The above drawings were all Frank Frazetta's, made in the mid-to-late 20th century. 

The three above are by Francisco Goya, done in the late 18th century.

These last five are sketches by Jeffrey Catherine Jones, the 20th-century artist and illustrator who passed away in 2011. Frank Frazetta himself considered Jones to be one of the greatest artists of their time.