When someone thinks of art, they probably have in mind elaborate, classic pieces fit for multi-million dollar display galleries or maybe abstract modern designs that the brain has difficulty understanding. There is more to art than just this, however, and quite a bit more to visual art.
When you look at a cartoon, see an advertisement in a magazine, or are merely bumbling through the internet’s endless stream of photos, you must remember that someone made that. Someone spent time and energy to create that graphic or image. Likewise, we must remember who creates pinups, as they are a large part of art’s history and it’s future.
For some, sexually appealing images have a value that is multifascited and helps to explain our world as well as the people in it. For others, it’s something to simply gawk at. The bottom line for most artists, however, is will sell and help me to survive? Well, as you may have guessed, sex does, in fact, sell, and artists are finding new ways to convey it. Laurie B is one such artist.
Laurie is able to mix cute with sexy, whether with different characters in the same panel or even with a single character. From the information I can find online about her, she must be a fairly modest person, not wanting to flaunt her personality or work, too much. Her humility, however, will not be on display here as I fully intend to showcase a few of her pieces. Here’s a sample of her “about me” from ArtofLaurieB.com:
Once upon a time, Disney aired a documentary about Feature Animation. I was shocked to discover that Goofy was not a real actor in some 2-dimensional world too expensive for our family to travel to on summer vacation. Still, I watched in awe as the animators flipped pages at their desk and made their drawings move. Sheer magic. It was at that moment that I knew I wanted to be an animator. I was 12 years old.
I always loved to draw, and have been drawing for longer than I can remember, but growing up on a farm in Alberta, Canada, I was a long way off from my career goals. There wasn’t anyone I could ask about it or job shadow for a day, no books at the library, and certainly no studios even remotely close by. I owned a single animated film on VHS – a copy of Disney’s Robin Hood – so I began there, freeze-framing through it all, and filling my sketchbook.
After I finished high school I began searching more aggressively for a career in the animation industry…
I currently work from home, freelancing on both industry and independent properties as well as traveling the convention circuit. We continue to call Calgary home.
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Laurie B’s work is amazing, I’m surprised I’ve never heard of her before. I am a sucker for The Little Mermaid.
Haha! Yeah, she’s got a good amount of pretty great stuff. I’d like to see some animation that is all her, rather than the collaborations I’ve found. I wonder if Disney plans to use any of her designs?