Real Words

The image above is hard to see clearly because of the size but it’s something that I found really insiring and I think the image gives you the gist of what caught my eye. This is a page taken out of the magazine Batanga, a Latino music and entertainment magazine that I recommend checking out. It’s one of several pages which showed the type of fashion style that define certain music genres.

Here’s what caught my eye:

• The really simple black sketches that are remniscent of older magazines rather than new ones.

• The yellow background that is almost like the color of parchment paper.

• The cohesion with which one style is pulled together and summarized by these simple sketches.

This is going into my “inspiration resource” scrapbook as something that I’d like to partially emulate in some sort of future art work. I would like to be able to reduce a style or an idea down to one cohesive page of simple drawings and to take that style and rework it into something that looks like it came from another era. Whether this turns into a piece of art or just the simple structure to remind me what a story is supposed to be about, I think it could be a great way to tear an idea down to its essence.

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