Fashion Zine - Final small brief - Artist help

Although I thought my drawings were actually getting somewhere, I still felt a little bit lost. I had to have a stop and think, what am I doing, what do I need to make sure I include in my illustrations. So I went back to the brief that she sent me and wrote down the key features.

> Focus on the women - nothing else in frame
> Different races
> Different sizes
> Bright colours
> Inspired by Joanna Thangiah

Now that I have my features, I need to focus on the composition of the women - what position will their body's be in? I think this is the reason why my drawings aren't jumping out at me yet, they're not eye catching enough. This made me think, who do I know that I can be inspired by that has women posing in positions that are interesting to draw (I know that sounds dodgy but bear with me) 

Life model drawings?? I know my illustrations have to be fully clothed, but I thought that looking at these drawings would help a lot with body shape and proportion. But these aren't really in the right positions that I could use for my drawings to be in, as a lot of them were laying down or from behind so I gave this idea a miss. 

But then I remembered someone that I looked at a lot in first year that could help me...

Bettie Page! Some of the positions that she's in are a bit too risqué, but there are a fair few that would be okay for me to use as inspiration for my drawings - this one for example. And so my drawings started to look like actual women - yay!

I also went to Pinterest to source some inspiration for my lady illustrations, trying to find something similar to the artist that I had been given to work with but a bit more to my own taste. 

And I found.. Babs Tarr! It seems that she focuses mainly on women and women in comics, but I like her style of character design. I'm taking her work as my own little inspiration for my drawings and hopefully this will make my work become more successful.