Saturday Forecast: 55° F / Breezy

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The New Yorker Cover: “Blown Away,” by Tomer Hanuka.

“The cover for this year’s Spring Style Issue is the fourth by Tomer Hanuka, an Israeli artist known for his striking use of color.

Q: We like the gestural quality of the woman’s pose. How does body language factor into making an image like this?

“I start with a gesture, just a line, and build a story around it. There are so many rules about drawing anatomy, and sometimes you need to break all of them to make a pose work. An image like this begins with a realistic sketch of a body, but in the end I want the physicality to disappear. I want the reader to be left only with an idea or a feeling.”

17 thoughts on “Saturday Forecast: 55° F / Breezy”

  1. If I lived in the States, I would frame each single one of those covers. This is pure genius, but the artist doesn’t leave us with ‘just an idea’. It still is a gorgeous image of a woman – with an idea! 🙂

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  6. We walked along the creek earlier…the bright yellow buttercups are blooming in mass…it might snow tonight and tomorrow morning…My sisters have snow in their areas…they live in a different state then me and they rarely get snow…

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  8. I like Tomer Hanuka cover illustration and his words…“I start with a gesture, just a line, and build a story around it” When I was creative about 3 years ago I used to randomly write down words, or come up with a phrase, or a sentence and build paragraphs, sometimes longer thoughts, kinda like a short story….

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