Draw pictures of scantily clad curvaceous women, is the answer.
The Classic Pin-Up Art of Jack Cole; one of my favourite books to flick through when I'm uninspired or feeling blue.
His watercolour washes and sketches featured in many magazines in the 50's and his fame really hit it off when he became Playboys marquee cartoonist until his death at the age of 43.
But lets not get all glum about that. Lets focus on the positives and the enticing work he created over his lifetime. As well as being a nab-hand and drawing perdy ladies, he was also pretty funny, most of his work were accompanied by amusing quotes or lines, here was the key to his fame within the magazine world.
"Junior, can't you do your chin-ups on something else around the house?"
The reason I'm revisiting his work is research for my cartoon strip in my newspaper I'm making for Leigh's lesson. I don't really want to do a contemporary 'being-young-living-in-london-perils-of-the-mundane' type comic strip like my much loved 'Em' from the now deceased London Paper.
Click to enlarge image or just visit emcartoons.com
As much as I like that style, it feels a bit over played now. So this is the more classic path I'm intending to stroll down.
I reckon his work is worth at least having a flick through, I know a lot of people that don't love it to say the least and think the whole one panel gag cartoons lack content and intelligence, hey maybe they're right. But they do make me smile. And sorry to all the ladies who believe I should think Jack Cole is a chauvinist pig and that his images are sexist and degrading. Because i simply don't agree.
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