In addition to Monday’s new Joyce art, here’s some new Billie art. This week I began drawing the “second day” of Dumbing of Age, and so I’m testing out characters in other clothes.
Here’s Billie, of course, in the universal language of current college-age girls, aka stretchpants and Uggs.
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Ugh. I mean, Uggs.
Heyheyheyhey… this college girl can’t stand Uggs. Give us a little credit.
Billie’s looking tough. Cool drawing!
Nice! I hate seeing that look around campus myself, but the effort you’re putting into making sure that their clothes are actually something a college-aged person would wear is really shining through Willis.
It is nice. If I had one criticism of your art, and I don’t, but… if I had one thing, I’d say that you possibly have a few too many girls in jeans all the time. I remember university, and while some girls did live in jeans all the time, lots of others mixed it up with leggins, skirts and tights, and other stuff.
Don’t hit me.
I also have trouble not drawing tennis shoes on everyone. Two birds with one stone!
I rather like the look of Ugg boots. The problem is that girls tend to just wear them with anything and everything. They’re really only good with thick trousers of a different shade of brown, possibly with white fur running up the outside of the legs. With a matching hooded jacket.
So winterwear basically.
Something about the colors in this combo really bother me. I understand Billie’s color scheme is black/yellow, but it looks pretty terrible with that burgundy over top. Something about the pure saturated black+a more muted burgundy color, just doesn’t work for it. And Billie, having been a prep back in High school would probably be more fashion conscientious than to do that. Just my two cents.
The way it’s explained to me by my teacher friends is that in high school, you dress nice for class because that’s the only time you see your friends. In college, you dress like crap for your classes and then change into nice clothes after school to hang out with your friends. Meaning for class you throw on the stretchpants, uggs, and a hoodie.
I suppose that’s true, lots of kids do PJ pants here. as a pure technical design-look I would still say the pure black overwhelms the muted colors. Maybe make them a very dark gray or something for future ‘days’ But its such a little nitpick that might not be worth the bother.
The colors look okay to me, not the best, but not terrible either, but then I once received a stern talking to for wearing black shoes with a mostly brown outfit, so I may not be the best source for color coordination information.
Me, I like the pure black. Dark gray would look wishy-washy, while I think this is more striking.
Maybe it’s because those were my high school colors, but I don’t see anything wrong with maroon and yellow together. Looks neat!
As one of those so-called friends, I’d like to say I never mentioned color-coordination.
I don’t remember any stretch pants or Uggs when I was in college. No, in my day, the women dressed modestly. Mammoth-skin jerkins, mostly, with cave bear fur leggings.
It looks like Billie to me, and I suppose that’s what matters. Good to know the artist is doing some kind of, er, research. 🙂 I like this drawing. I think it sums her up pretty well. And I being a girl whose fashion consists of nothing but jeans, over-sized hoodies, t-shirts and sneakers I don’t think I can safely contribute to the discussion above…