A client asked me “You remember disco, right?” They said it with such conviction. Like one look at me and the leap to faux satin shirts and angel flight plants was a natural presumptive jump. OK, the truth be told, I did own all of Donna Summers albums (those black vinal bones of music past). But honestly, Didn’t disco die an awful death ushering in new wave and techno punk?

Based on this assumption I was asked to create a John Travolta type disco scene. I drew the thumbnail with Autodesk Sketchbook Pro and vectorized it in Adobe Illustrator with custom brush settings. I used my (new — wahoo!) Wacom Tablet for this as my old tablet developed a dipping skipping error that was driving me nuts. It took me longer than I wanted to (5 hours) finish the task because the end product will be 4 feet wide by six feet tall and I felt compelled to clean up the lines a bit.

The girl that I used as scrap for this piece had a weird foreshortened elbow. Looking at it now, It still bothers me. I am hoping that tomorrow it looks better. (The prayer of every artist.) Chances are I will need to come back to this and fix some of the geometries there. Oh well.

All in all, not a bad gig.

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