My grandmother's sketchbook
Sept 27, 2019 9:55:34 GMT -5
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Post by Crimebuster on Sept 27, 2019 9:55:34 GMT -5
I thought about putting this in the "ask the CCF" but decided it should probably have it's own thread so I don't clog that one up.
I knew my grandmother pretty well, but I never knew her to be an artistic person. When she passed away several years ago, though, as family historian I came into possession of her various photo and keepsake albums. Much to my surprise and complete delight, there were a few pages of drawings she had done as a youth.
And not just any drawings.
Drawings of comic strip and comic book characters!
My guess is that all of her drawings are from comic strips, even though some of the characters also appeared (or first appeared in one case) in comic books.
It seems as though she was copying specific drawings from the comics, teaching herself to draw. These drawings obviously meant a lot to her for her to keep them her whole life. So I wonder why she stopped drawing as an adult.
But more to the point, I wonder what, exactly, her sources were.
I'm in the process of scanning the few pages she did, and I'm going to post the images here. I'm hoping you can help me identify what comic strips these are from. In most cases I think this will be impossible, as they are just head shots, but in a couple cases they are full poses that I think correspond to specific strips. I'd love to pin down exactly when she did these drawings! I'm sure it was between 1940 and 1944, and I suspect they were mostly or entirely done around 1940-41, but we'll see what the group thinks!
I'll have the first one up shortly. It's the best of them, and the one that i think will be easiest to identify, and if we can pin it down, then it might give us the clues we need to see what other strips appeared at the same time to identify the others!
I knew my grandmother pretty well, but I never knew her to be an artistic person. When she passed away several years ago, though, as family historian I came into possession of her various photo and keepsake albums. Much to my surprise and complete delight, there were a few pages of drawings she had done as a youth.
And not just any drawings.
Drawings of comic strip and comic book characters!
My guess is that all of her drawings are from comic strips, even though some of the characters also appeared (or first appeared in one case) in comic books.
It seems as though she was copying specific drawings from the comics, teaching herself to draw. These drawings obviously meant a lot to her for her to keep them her whole life. So I wonder why she stopped drawing as an adult.
But more to the point, I wonder what, exactly, her sources were.
I'm in the process of scanning the few pages she did, and I'm going to post the images here. I'm hoping you can help me identify what comic strips these are from. In most cases I think this will be impossible, as they are just head shots, but in a couple cases they are full poses that I think correspond to specific strips. I'd love to pin down exactly when she did these drawings! I'm sure it was between 1940 and 1944, and I suspect they were mostly or entirely done around 1940-41, but we'll see what the group thinks!
I'll have the first one up shortly. It's the best of them, and the one that i think will be easiest to identify, and if we can pin it down, then it might give us the clues we need to see what other strips appeared at the same time to identify the others!
... Thanks for sharing it.
