Some art and a question

[ironicbees.livejournal.com]

erynn999 was hoping for some naked Bertie & Jeeves, so here they are. *cue burlesque music*





I did a gradient on the background, and didn't notice the stripy effect till it was too late to fix. Grrrr...


Have some golfing Bertie. I did this when I was trying out my different inks.



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I've been keeping an eye out online for photos of men who look as close as possible to my mental image of Bertie, so that I could point to one and say "There, that's what I see him looking like in real life". I've collected many pictures of men who look similar to him in one way or another, but it wasn't till yesterday that I found a near perfect match. I did a bit of manipping, adding a suit & hair (the man was bald)...and it turned out he bore an unsettling resemblance to one of my cousins, who is not someone I want to be reminded of in porny situations). All this is to say that my mental image of Bertie is currently undergoing a slight shift, for that reason among others. It seems my mental real-life Bertie just doesn't look as close as I thought to my drawn Bertie. He'll probably be undergoing some subtle alterations in my art now.

So, this whole thing got me wondering: what does your mental Bertie look like? Is your image influenced by fic? The tv show? For me, the consistent features are a lean face, prominent nose, slightly receding chin, large blue eyes, sunny smile, hair anywhere from golden blond to sandy brown, nice looking but not in a head-turning way. The details keep shifting, though, which is very frustrating.

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[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

very much like Hugh, actually. Crossed a little bit with a young Ben Daniels and Jonny Lee Miller and the bloke from all the shirt ads from the 20s and 30s that someone put up a while back - the one that was the boyfriend of the artist? I grew up on the various watercolour images of the Penguin editions, and none of them ever looked anything like my mental image of Bertie. For a start, most of them were distinctly chubby. Then I saw the images of Hugh-as-Bertie and went 'Yes! thankyou!'

OTOH, mental Jeeves looks very little like Stephen Fry except from a few expressions.

[ironicbees.livejournal.com]

I have no idea who those two men are but I googled them, and I can see why you picture Bertie as looking a bit like them. The shirt ads were by J. C. Leyendecker (http://www.americanartarchives.com/leyendecker,jc.htm).

Despite my no longer picturing Hugh as Bertie, he still influences my drawing. I can't seem to avoid it!