tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7064869808377826774.post3745964899272680057..comments2024-02-28T00:44:25.483-08:00Comments on Charlie Allen's Blog: '....OF SHOES AND SHIPS AND SEALING WAX, OF CABBAGES AND KINGS!'leifpenghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07232334860061949895noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7064869808377826774.post-18709645060304198102009-08-31T12:46:45.170-07:002009-08-31T12:46:45.170-07:00Chad, a late reply. Early on, all of the billboar...Chad, a late reply. Early on, all of the billboards and most figure illustrations required good photo reference. Later, in the 60's and 70's, I shut down the home 'photo lab' (our utility room), pretty much got rid of the trays, drying sheets, etc. and hardly ever used the old Speed Graphic. Poloroid, and just out of head drawing sufficed. No apprentice type work....although pre-war I worked for a Fresno ad agency for three months....good experience. Post war, I worked for the Fresno Bee newspaper for nearly a year....more experience. In S.F. I was thrust into ads really over my head....forced learning curve....and luckily survived!Charlie Allennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7064869808377826774.post-39567929504604756662009-08-26T10:37:22.577-07:002009-08-26T10:37:22.577-07:00I think the "square" look was not only a...I think the "square" look was not only appropriate for the time but also for Lucky Lager's brand.<br /><br />The illustration style you used fits very well with the Lucky Lager logo.<br /><br />Thanks for posting your work. I visit often without commenting. <br /><br />Thanks,<br />Tim LangenderferAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7064869808377826774.post-66577649950301608132009-08-25T17:14:00.094-07:002009-08-25T17:14:00.094-07:00Charlie,more great work.But a couple of questions ...Charlie,more great work.But a couple of questions if you have the time: You have shown us a tremendous amount of very high quality art over the months (for which many thanks) as a rough percentage how much would have been based on photographic source material? and did you have to serve a long apprenticeship till you got your chance to fly,so to speak? Thank you.Chad Sterlingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7064869808377826774.post-66440025258612907742009-08-24T21:42:48.623-07:002009-08-24T21:42:48.623-07:00Not to be a 'control freak', as I'm so...Not to be a 'control freak', as I'm sometimes accused of around here, let me quote the 'title' a bit more fully....one that I enjoyed as a youngster. 'The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things....of shoes and ships and sealing wax, and of cabbages and kings. And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings!' Sounds like today's political discussions!Charlie Allennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7064869808377826774.post-32910255108513486312009-08-24T13:14:53.149-07:002009-08-24T13:14:53.149-07:00Boy, oh boy.....Will probably misquote again: Pro...Boy, oh boy.....Will probably misquote again: Prof. Henry Higgins in 'My Fair Lady' sang about 'letting a woman in your life'....'their minds are filled with cotton, hay and rags!' (sexist, but that was the point). Cotton and hay were in my mind on the blog. Tor Hershman is so correct....the quote and the 'Walrus' were from Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland....not Baum's 'Wizard of Oz". Old age is just a barrel of fun! Tom, right on. Some musician said, 'you have to master the fundamentals before can improvise'. It's pretty true in illustration as well.Charlie Allennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7064869808377826774.post-14623202334873023742009-08-24T12:18:28.536-07:002009-08-24T12:18:28.536-07:00Charlie, good to see those "square" 50&#...Charlie, good to see those "square" 50's renderings. I was taught that you first need to know how to do the "square" stuff before moving into the "round".. or something like that. ;-) Seems like all the inventive loose and clever direction, didn't save the illustration market from fading away through the 60's and 70's.. and beyond. The theory was that as illustrators, we needed to do something the camera couldn't do. Well, a camera can't and never could do what the human mind can do, and that is to think! A camera is one eye and no brain! I like what your brain did with those illustrations you scanned,<br /> Charlie. ;-)<br /><br />No criticism of photographers intended,<br /><br />Tom watsonTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13237565169344311948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7064869808377826774.post-75696891690135185962009-08-24T09:56:13.782-07:002009-08-24T09:56:13.782-07:00Soooooooooooo, you're the dude, Charlie, that ...Soooooooooooo, you're the dude, Charlie, that warped me wittle mind with the zine art, ehh?<br /><br />)))((((((<br />(-)...(*)<br />....U....<br />..[___].. <br /><br />BTW: Methinks that was the "Alice In Wonderland" walrus.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03037704048671379868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7064869808377826774.post-61008669814579439812009-08-24T08:48:44.722-07:002009-08-24T08:48:44.722-07:00Great site - thanks for all your work on this. I l...Great site - thanks for all your work on this. I love these old pictures.logatexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14226278990483993173noreply@blogger.com