Nothing Rhymes with Bukowski | Editorial Illustration

Create an illustration using charcoal and pastel on toned paper to accompany a verse of your choosing written by Charles Bukowski; value and contrast will be the two primary formal elements used to support your visual concept. Eliciting your visual concept from a metaphoric text; working in the additive and subtractive properties of dry media on a medium-toned surface; working with the preliminary processes of thumbnails and comps; to develop work ethics and time-management skills while working under a tight schedule in order to present a professional piece. For this piece I chose to illustrate the Landlady in Charles Bukowski's The Pretty Girl who Rented Rooms on an Indigo Blue toned Cansen paper with light toned lime-green Pan Pastel, vine charcoal and Soft Pastel sticks. To elicit the eerie feeling in the desolate and overpriced room rented by our protagonist from the pretty girl. Illustrating the 75 year old landlady in a wonky manner with her inner eye visible in her uplifted hand reminding him that she may be old, her body may work against her, he mustn’t be fooled into thinking her mind is not sharp as a tack. Light toned lime-green Pan Pastel blended with Soft Pastels and charcoal to create a two-color value contrast using only green pastels on the Indigo Blue Cansen MI-Teintes Drawing Paper. If you are interested in reading The Pretty Girl Who Rented Rooms there is a link to the poem on Bukowski.net below: https://bukowski.net/manuscripts/displaymanuscript.php?show=poem1977-10-15-the_pretty_girl_who_rented_rooms.jpg&workid=3417