The flour bag and short cigarettes aren’t real, they’re illustrative inventions. Posting them reminded me of the fun I’ve always had with this illustration type. It also reminds me that if I had a machine shop, or even a garage, I might not make pictures at all. To illustrate, you have to first understand. If you can’t illustrate something, you just don’t understand it well enough; and I really enjoy the process of understanding. With these personal illustrative inventions, I have to understand a problem, think through the solutions and then problem solve the rendering. It’s all lots of fun.
This image is from November 2008. I pictured it as an ad on the back cover of a pulp magazine or inside the back cover of a comic book. First, though, I pictured the two 35mm cameras in my closet that will probably never get used again. Great optics on each, great mechanics, too. They were fairly expensive in their day and produced professional quality images. How many other folks are storing the same sort of relics? If I had a simple universal insert that I could drop in the back of either camera and collect digital data instead of expose film, both cameras would have a new life.
Possible? Well, there it is… you tell me. [smile]