Back when I was at RISD, I took a class called Editorial Illustration, taught by Anthony Russo. For the final assignment, we were asked to illustrate a four-letter word of our choice. Not a swear word, but a word that was 4-letters long. I tossed around several ideas, including nude.
However, I didn’t simply want to draw a naked figure to illustrate the word for that seemed too obvious. Then I hit upon the idea of using suit,
as in birthday suit.
Furthermore, I thought it would be interesting to place a nude in the midst of a group of figures wearing tuxedos (sometimes referred to as monkey suits
). I thought the juxtaposition would make an interesting illustration. Continue reading
