Bill Peckmann &Illustration 08 Apr 2010 07:27 am
Alex Toth doodles
- Thanks to the inimitable Bill Peckmann, I have a few Alex Toth doodles which I’d like to share with you.
This is a color sketch done by someone who
obviously loves flying and loves drawing/painting it.
These are a pair of spot illustrations done for a newspaper.
Here’s a bit of animatic art done on vellum.
Here’s a bit of original Toth page art.
(this note from Bill Peckmann:) “This attachment has an Alex
doodle that I tried to turn into a ‘New Yorker’ cover . . .
. . . One rejection slip later, I still had the fun of Xeroxing and
painting it and now scanning it.”
I think the final piece, The New Yorker cover, is a piece of art in itself.
More doodles.
Last of the doodles.
Bill Peckmann writes of this piece:
“This was made for fun, Alex’s ‘Underoos’ L.O. drawings were so well done (what else!) and posed, that I ganged up a few of them, Xeroxed ‘em and painted them. It’s a pan cel.”
on 08 Apr 2010 at 4:15 pm 1.Eric Noble said …
I love it when you show off your Alex Toth artwork. He was a true master. I bow my head in respect to him.
on 14 Apr 2010 at 3:46 pm 2.Paul Spector said …
I absolutely agree with Eric. Toth was so totally boss! The original Jonny Quest informed my Saturday mornings. From what I understand (from my dad’s mouth) the series was far more expensive to produce than the average Sat Morn fare. Hence, the axe.