Last week I received an invitation from the wonderful illustrator
Toby Thane Neighbors, to contribute to his new collaborative
illustration blog Illostribute. The idea is to "pay tribute to master
illustrators from the past, by investigating their work through
interpretation". A 'master' is chosen and illustrators are asked to
interpret an image in their style of the chosen master illustrator.
The second master illustrator chosen was the extraordinarily
talented John Held Jr. recognized for his jaunty characters and
humour which graced the covers of Vanity Fair, The New York
Times Sunday Magazine and Life.
In researching John Held Jr.'s work I was drawn to his characters
based on observations of 1920' - 30's youth. The image I chose
was from a Life cover titled 'She left home under a cloud'.
(picture link via Gatochy's flicker site of Held's work.)
