Original DA Upload Date: May 31, 2021
To cap off May, here’s another 80s-inspired artwork, this time featuring the Tetrad making over somebody that was actually born and grew up in the decade Gilda worships so much!
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I realized I hadn’t really drawn the Tetrad interacting with Sally, other than Margo, who, of course she’d be seen a lot with Sally, she’s Sally’s daughter. So I decided to change that with this piece, featuring Sally getting made over to look like she came from the 80s! Which isn’t that removed from what Sally usually does as a model. She usually likes dressing in 40s- or 50s-inspired getups when she models/advertises her business. The 80s, on the other hand, is not a decade she usually takes inspiration from for her attire, casual, formal, or modeling. In fact, on the strict timeline, she was born in 1982, so shoulder pads and neon colors and big hair are something that she remembers first-hand, and not just through the nostalgic filter those born in the triplets’ generation would be provided with to see the 80s. And early 90s, for that matter. Aesthetics from one decade often last a bit into the next one. In the 80s’ case, the aesthetics we’ve come to know the 80s for took until like 1992 or 1993 to finally give way to the grunge and darkness and obsession with the EXTREME!!! of the 90s.
Sally’s aesthetic is not 80s neon or 90s grunge, obviously, it’s more the flowers and pastels of the 40s and 50s. I imagine she watched a lot of 1950s sitcoms and Technicolor movies in her youth, as well as movies about the era. And that’s a large part of what influenced her aesthetics and morals… basically her entire personality and ideas. Minus the 50s idea that females belong in the kitchen. She looked to the 40s and saw the ladies that took over the workforce then. And that’s (part of) why she decided to become a lawyer!
Now to the piece!
Anyone who’s been paying attention to my work would know that the Hynde family isn’t really all that tall. But part of the reason this was drawn was to show just how short they are… Sally is barely taller than Gilda! Which was something I knew was to be the case even before I settled on a design for her and Harry. Sally is 5’2″/1.57m compared to Gilda’s 5’/1.52m. And Gilda as a teenager and adult is 5’4″/1.63m, same as Harry. So basically, yeah, if Gilda looks surprisingly tall in this image, it’s actually Sally who’s surprisingly short. You just didn’t have a reference before of just how short Sally is.
Once again, April doesn’t like wearing shoulder-padded suits, so she’s just chilling out, being anachronistic by looking at her smartphone. April giving attitude, that’s a bit out of character for her, isn’t it? Heheheh. Maybe I should give her more moments of attitude. It’d help flesh her out as a character.
Finally, there’s also the detail of Gilda saying ‘rad’, because I thought it’d be cute to have her drop a bit of 80s slang. She loves the 80s, after all, it’d only make sense for her to adopt some of the slang of that era. Not ‘tubular’, though. Even as a kid, I thought ‘tubular’ sounded stupid. I don’t know how the term came to even be associated with 80s slang, I’ve never heard any piece of media from or about or even parodying the 80s use the word ‘tubular’. No, Gilda’s more the type that’d say stuff like ‘gnarly’ or ‘righteous’ or ‘totally’ or ‘wicked’ or ‘[insert any word that sounds like something Bill and Ted would say here]’. Pretty much anything other than ‘tubular’.
That’ll be all for this one. Happy Memorial Day!
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