Betty Broadbent at the P.T. Barnum Circus

So for my drawing and mixed media class we had to do an illustrated biography of a person/thing. I chose to do a series of illustrations about Betty Broadbent who was one of the first women tattoo artists. She was also a sideshow act because her whole body was covered in tattoos. This is one of my in progress line drawings of Betty at the circus with a horse. There aren't any tattoos on her body yet because I am still trying to figure out how to work them into the images.

Illustration Fridays

I am going to start submitting illustrations to Illustration Friday. It is a website that has a theme every friday and people illustrate the theme. Hopefully this will become a good way to get myself out there. Right now I have been busy finishing up my thesis pieces and I am proude to say I have minimal left to do. However, in mty other classes I need to do a substancial amount of work like finishing up my final toy and my 10 page biography for my mixed media class.

Aside from that, life has been rather chaotic and big changes might happen soon that I am not exactly excited or happy about but I will get through it. So I don't leave this post empty, I will post one initial line drawing from my 6th thesis piece about obsessions with food and drink.

Exhibit A: Flapper drinking absinthe


Thats all for now. I will post some drawings tomorrow from my biography book about Betty Broadbent one of the worlds first completelty tattooed women in the 1920s. Why am I so obsessed with the 20s?

xo
Lindsay P.