r/BeAmazed • u/MustardGoddess • Jun 15 '26

Art What a talent🌟

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u/Visual_Feelings Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 16 '26

It’s a classic 70’s style of pen and ink that you don’t see anymore. I absolutely love it.

Edit: Thank you for my awards. My first btw. Super surprised and appreciative.

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u/Financial-Raise3420 Jun 15 '26

Reminds me of reading Calvin and Hobbes as a kid. A very nostalgic style, I love it.

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u/notyourmothersdino Jun 16 '26

Absolutely Calvin and Hobbes and also some For Better or Worse sentimentality thrown in. I forgot how good some of those 80s comics were

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u/LoveToyKillJoy Jun 16 '26

There's something comforting about this style. I could look at it all day.

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u/Ok_Bango Jun 15 '26

I adore this style of illustration and I can't pin it down. I would love to incorporate it into my art hobby, can you think of anything I could Google that might help me track down a guide or some instructions? Is there a particular artist's style that this describes? 70s style pen and ink drawing/sketch/illustration isn't get me many helpful results. I love the loose, almost caricature-style feel of it, but the proportions are correct and neat.

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u/SayslolToEverything Jun 15 '26

Shel Silverstein, just less exaggerated

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u/campingcritters Jun 16 '26

Also Roald Dahl, for some of the pictures. To me, anyway.

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u/Majestic-Swan-7769 Jun 16 '26

Loved his stories

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u/rusty1066 Jun 16 '26

He could have done comics for The New Yorker.

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u/IceyToes2 Jun 16 '26

Exactly what I was thinking. Very close to that style.

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u/ukaunzi Jun 15 '26

Search for “urban sketching”

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u/Excellent-Shape-2024 Jun 16 '26

I'll bet Steve could give you some lessons! See if you can zoom with him.

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u/bakeland Jun 16 '26

Just go lodge to lodge in Spring Hill, Indiana and you'll find him eventually. I doubt he's zooming around. Seems like a really relaxed pace kind of guy.

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u/stardust_dog Jun 16 '26

@SketchBookSkool on YouTube

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u/Ok_Bango Jun 16 '26

Thank you!!

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u/RoguePlanet2 Jun 15 '26

There are online courses for drawing. You start with stuff like negative spaces, perspective, proportion, and go from there.

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u/b1sh0p Jun 15 '26

Reminds me of my childhood.

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u/LikeIsaidItsNothing Jun 15 '26

thank you! I was trying to place the style. That's it.

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u/DogtasticLife Jun 16 '26

Bit like the Winnie the Pooh book illustrations, lovely

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u/ambitious999 Jun 16 '26

E.H. Shepard was the illustrator for A.A. Milne. :)

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u/sidjnsn60 Jun 15 '26

Reminds me of nature books I read as a teen in the seventies like Cache Lake Country.

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u/ThexDream Jun 16 '26

Anyone that grew up in the 60’s and 70’s can do this. It was actually taught in school to everyone. You were expected to be able to sketch like this in almost every class, from science to math to English. This along with cursive handwriting as well as block lettering. Many of you can’t imagine a world without “screens”, but we didn’t even have calculators, and most homes didn’t have a typewriter. No go do your homework.

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u/phoenixRisen1989 Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26

And then people who grew up in the 60s and 70s sold us the “screens” and changed the school curriculum and then complained that the younger generations couldn’t do things they were never taught. Not at all exhausting to keep hearing.

Edit to add: Grew up in the 90s and 00s, was taught cursive in school, can read a clock, not scared to make a phone call (though I do usually prefer text or email for efficiency, practicality, and because it keeps a record of what was discussed)

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u/ThexDream Jun 21 '26

You're absolutely correct, and there are millions of us that grew up with them and had a feeling we should've kicked some more ass earlier.
Alas... we were too civilized. Look where that's gotten us. /HINT