40s & 50s Pin-up

A pin -up girl, also known as a pin-up model is a model whose photographs are mass produced to appeal to popular culture. The term pin-up may also refer to drawings, paintings, and other illustrations. Pin-up photos can be found in magazines, calendars, newspapers, on postcards and chromo-lithographs.

Many pin-up photographs were of celebrities who were considered sex symbols, the most famous pin-up girl was Betty Grable.

Today I'm going take inspiration from the photos of pin-up girls I've found on Google and do some fashion sketches. Pin-up girls were intended for informal display but the photographs I've seem and admire are all very

elegant and tasteful. They may have been considered trashy in their time but today they're adored and many people try to capture this elegant look with celebrities today.

I admire 40's pin-up girl Betty Grable and 50's pin-up Marilyn Monroe. They're both elegant, graceful and poised in their photographs. So I hope my sketches today can show that too.

Moodboard I've created for inspiration.

Kandinsky inspires me

For my Art exam project one of my influences are Wassily Kandinsky. His work is so inspiring, I love the way he compares music to art, this is something I usually do. Whenever I watch an interesting music video an idea for a drawing or design usually sparks in my head.
Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically. (Wassily Kandinsky)

Kandinsky was also fascinated and stimulated by colour, which is widely seen in most of of his musical paintings such as Composition VII.

Designs that were inspired by Kandinsky