Pretty in Ink (5 points)

 I really love the artist and the work in this book. One of my favorite artists is Nell Brinkley. So many others love her work too and it's hard to ignore that she has done something unique in the illustration I just love the way she draws women with such attitude through wild golden curly locks of hair and graceful expressions. I think there is a lot of movement in her brushstrokes. She uses ink often in her drawings and the line quality she achieves is beautiful. The images are very clear but they are really designed in a nice way by leaving certain spots on her figures a more simplified value and adding more detail in the area of the focal points. the images almost give me a sense that she completed them quickly and with a free way of thinking because some linework I've seen before is always very structured and perfect. In Brinkley's work, we get the opposite. It's so nicely done that we don't worry about any messy lines in the picture because we become more interested in the characters and the drama. the subtle usage of solid values goes a long way in some of the images. I learned that a woman actually illustrated the early Aquaman comics. I was surprised by this and also found it to be really cool. In the interview with the illustrator Romana Fradon, she said she was surrounded by men in the industry, and she was happy to be there but wasn't fond of drawing superhero subjects. It was fun to see the progression of women in power through the years of comics.