Err… “frightening females”? … “gruesome gals”? I’m running out of alliterative descriptions for the titillating topic of petrifying pin-ups!
Anyway, Matt Dixon’s wonderful women are hardly horrific, gruesome or frightening… if anything they’re delightfully creepy ( in a cute and playful kinda way ). On his website Matt tells us, “I’ve been an enthusiastic waver of pens and pencils for as long as I can remember.”
“Digital art first captured my imagination when I began to assemble images from ASCII characters on a Commodore VIC-20 way back in 1980,” says Matt. “Happily, things have moved along a little and Adobe Photoshop allows me to achieve slightly more sophistacted results than I got back then.”
No kidding! I found Matt’s work featured yesterday on the front page of CGHub, but the gaming industry found Matt long before that. He’s been creating artwork there since 1988 and says, “I was privileged to be involved with numerous high profile game and movie licenses, including Harry Potter, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon and Pirates of the Caribbean.”
Matt, who includes Norman Rockwell and Robert McGinnis among his inspirational influences, now works freelance providing illustration and concept design for print and digital media. On top of his busy workload he somehow still finds the time to dish up deliciously deadly damsels for us to adore. Now that’s what I call a Hallowe’en treat! Matt Dixon’s website
Aly Fell is a 3D animator, modeller and concept artist for TT Fusion Games near Manchester UK. Aly loves to draw and paint pin-up art and does it magnificently well!
Aly’s girls have a wicked sense of humour. They often pose in costume against retro backgrounds culled from b-movies, dime novels, and tattered old comic books. When the mood strikes him, Fell can deftly emulate the form and content of a Robert McGinnis crime paperback or a Gil Elvgren calendar page…
Almost all of Aly Fell’s creations are done for personal enjoyment – not as commisions. “I have a full time job and rarely have time to do my own work,” he writes on his website. Yet find the time he does (thank goodness for us!), often creating these masterpieces for the “Character of the Week” design competitions at conceptart.org
Aly Fell also has a blog where you’ll find his latest Hallowe’en-themed illustration.
Tastefully Done is the first-ever nude webcomic characters’ calendar. The calendar sees the likes of Ivan Pope, Ali Graham, Gordon McAlpin, Charles Woolbright, Chris Jones, Bryan Chojnowski, Pontus Madsen and Christian Fundin, Fred Grisolm, Philip Spence, Rich Dachtera, Robert Koch, Ramon Perez (whose horrifying art is shown here) and Rob Coughler tackle the delicate art of the nude pin-up.
Each artist has allowed their characters to bare all. The calendar costs $15 and all profits go to cancer research.
The Minneapolis/St. Paul CityPages has a nice interview with Bill Daley, collector of pin-up art and the curator of the Daley Illustration Gallery — a gallery devoted to “pinups, pulp covers, still lifes, clown scenes, and all manner of other illustration-related originals” including Duane Bryers’s busty redhead Hilda.
Here’s a big load of classic pin-ups for all you fellas to hang in your garages, poolhalls, and barber shops… I followed a link from 
