From a 1972 JC Penney catalog.

This is a camera-phone shot of an episode of the X-Files, season three.  It aired in 1996, about the time I was taking my first-ever figure drawing class in high school.  That’s what I would have done too – focus really hard on the important parts like the muscly arms and flowing hair and then just kind of throw the face in there for context.  But later, when I wrote about the hot naked model in my diary, I would have spelled the contraction of  “you are” correctly. As in, “Journal entry 05/17/96 – You’re such a good drawer”.

Protection means security

“Trouble can find you when you least expect it. No matter whether you’re a businessman in a strange city, a couple in a restaurant, or a movie star on vacation. “

I wish I could see the other photos from that shoot.  Hopefully, they involve more pewter cobras and knives held in front of his dark smoldering eyes.

It certainly is.

I am a huge fan of romance novel illustrations. Where did they go? These Photoshop nightmares do not set my heart a-blazin’.

Thanks, Fotolia!

I can think of a number of situations in which graphic artists are desperate for an image of muscular teens pretending to use a laptop. Fortunately, Fotolia has them covered.