Classic Pump

[Monkeyboy]

My process as an artist includes the costuming of my models. I'm always looking for sources. One of the streams of my current project employs period characters from 1930 to 1960. I'm constantly in search of a source for footwear. It's just so much fun to flirt with all the lovely pin-up girls here but I landed here in the first place because I was doing research. Here's a style that I'd love to be able to get my hands on. It's just a basic suede pump but I think a masterpiece.

[Kim Bombshell]

So you can make anyone look good ;-)

Monkeyboy said:

Thanks for the details Kim. I'll probably be looking for these shoes the rest of my life. Fortunately if I start with the right shapes I can manipulate most anything. It's one of the advantages of drawing over photography.

[Monkeyboy]

No I don't presume to be able to do that. Having good craft allows me to interpret, bend, enhance but the real beauty belongs to the model. I just take advantage of it. Nobody would have to "make" you look good.

Kim Bombshell said:

So you can make anyone look good ;-)

Monkeyboy said:

Thanks for the details Kim. I'll probably be looking for these shoes the rest of my life. Fortunately if I start with the right shapes I can manipulate most anything. It's one of the advantages of drawing over photography.

[Monkeyboy]

Thanks to everybody who had some input to this discussion. If anyone has sources for vintage and retro shoes please visit my page and leave me a note.