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A relatively early coloured piece of mine that I always liked. At the time I gave her the name Foxanne, but actually that's kind of a stupid name. I would be like being hame Human-Herman or something... But I like the drawing for a number of reasons -- the shadow, the moment caught in mid-air, the contrast between the flat black areas and the 3D shading of the rest, and the t-shirt. Does anyone remember the Stray Cats? The work was done entirely in ink and coloured pencils.
Category All / All
Species Vulpine (Other)
Size 700 x 949px
File Size 144.4 kB
The original boards back in the 60's were small. The largest were perhaps 30 inches, and many were only 24. The larger boards we're familiar with now arrived with the revival of skateboarding in the 80's. I think the reason for it was that the new sport boarding emphasized doing headstands, somersaults, and group sex on the board. Obviously size would matter. The older sport was more about speed and agillity. Small size might not help, but large size was required either.
There was also a change in the relative size of the wheels that I still don't understand. The wheels shown here are clearly the 60's type.
There was also a change in the relative size of the wheels that I still don't understand. The wheels shown here are clearly the 60's type.
I remember skateboards like that, although even the smaller ones had enough room to rest both feet on :). My last 'board (that's still around here somewhere) had somewhat wider wheels than depicted here (if you hit a puddle with them at speed, it made a splash totally out of proportion to the actual depth of the puddle.
I recall as a preteen, barrelling up and down the sidewalk so quickly (imitating express trains I rode in Manhattan) that one could see tracks in the sidewalk where the wheels had actually sucked up the dust. One of my first decent boards had bearings that would howl like electic motors when I got up to top speed.
Nowadays, skateboard wheels look like large marbles. I dunno why that happened either.
I recall as a preteen, barrelling up and down the sidewalk so quickly (imitating express trains I rode in Manhattan) that one could see tracks in the sidewalk where the wheels had actually sucked up the dust. One of my first decent boards had bearings that would howl like electic motors when I got up to top speed.
Nowadays, skateboard wheels look like large marbles. I dunno why that happened either.
I usually draw about things I'm familiar with, to one degree or another. Unforunately some things I can only be familiar with through books or film -- I've never been to the top of Everest, for example. Or to Titan. Nor have I have commanded a tank, or judged a gladatorial combat from the Imperial Box. Drawing these things is for me a way to try to create the experience as best I can, from material at hand like books.
Great sense of motion, and I do like the texture on the shorts
We played "Stray Cat Strut" in my high school jazz/pep band. Still love that trombone part *grin* I didn't become familiar with the rest until the "swing revival" of the 90's and I got interested in the The Brian Setzer Orchestra and looked into Brian Setzer's earlier work.
We played "Stray Cat Strut" in my high school jazz/pep band. Still love that trombone part *grin* I didn't become familiar with the rest until the "swing revival" of the 90's and I got interested in the The Brian Setzer Orchestra and looked into Brian Setzer's earlier work.
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