Jc Leyendecker - Blog Posts

Klance but make it JC Leyendecker ig

Kuh Luh Kuh as I call it

Ace Attorney but what if its J C Leyendecker who illustrated it

"Stay with me for eternity, love, and I'll dance with you as much as you want."

I wanted to practice a different art style, so here we are: Ominis x MC, inspired by the work and style of JC Leyendecker's "Man and Woman Dancing." Reference under the cut 🫶

Original Art - American Weekly Cover (Dec19th1948)

Art by J.C. Leyendecker

[ WIP - 6/7 ]

COMING SOON @ ARCHIVECON || 6/21 - 6/23

‘You Make Me Quiver’ 🏹

they are in lesbians, your honor <3

(my favorite combo: susahao & jc leyendecker)

Napollya Leyendecker study wuuhooo!! it’s finished! let me know what u think!

my first contribution to this fandom that’s not 3yrs old yay

another low-res wip of the leyendecker study I’m working on but this time it’s napoleon

I’ve been so busy these pasts weeks with a big project finishing up at work and also being in three different countries in the past week but I’ve finally got some time to work on this again :)

I’ll probably finish this study soon so I’m looking forward to that :D

work in progress: leyendecker study but it’s Ilya (I’ll add napoleon too (and hopefully Gaby))

I‘ve now made it my personal mission to draw more fanart for this small fandom since I’ve been wanting to draw more again anyways and have also been obsessed with this movie for the last few years

TOXIC OLD MAN YAOI

Based on this piece, Couple dancing, by Leyendecker:

Working on a Leyendecker study this week! I've been having a hell of a time trying to get the legs right. I'm excited to get to color though!

Process of my latest rookanis piece!

Original piece and thoughts under the cut ✨

As usual I've struggled with faces, it took a ton of attempts to get either of them right (all not included lmao, trust me, I struggled). Sometimes I overworked the rendering - most notably her hair. Chiara's hair is straight and the woman in the ref has curly hair, I kept overdoing the details in ways that didn't make sense. I wish the final result was closer to his style but alas, I can try that again in a new piece!

When I overwork pieces of a painting, I rather paint the area flat and try again from scratch than trying to fix the existing rendering. By doing it a second time I try to make each brushstroke more deliberate so that I need fewer moves to show what I want. Treat that first attempt as a test run, trust yourself that you'll do better the second time around.

J.C. Leyendecker, famous queer artist of dapper 1920s people, across a hundred years of separation: so sometimes we need to get a little athlete, I mean a real small one, posing like he’s going to kill and eat someone, leaving no shards of bone.

Me, humble disciple: absolutely absolutely

J.C. Leyendecker: he could kill a horse by sneering. That’s how cunty he is.

Me: doin my best, boss -

J.C. Leyendecker: you must then put him in the silky underwear -

Me: of course.

Leyendecker: do your absolute best to shine up the silky, shiny, thin underwear. Oil it.

Me: I’m not great at this -

Leyendecker: think silk. Think shiny. Think, “this is how you sell clothing to straight men.”

Me: is - is it?

Leyendecker: the whip must, of course, be slightly suggestive. No, more than that. More than that. It’s important that he be provocatively catchable, AND YET - he can defend himself!

Me: got it, boss. Um - you know I’m not actually - I don’t know how to paint -

Leyendecker: shhh, I am telling you. to sell suits we also need a suit guy. we model the suit guy on a Suit Guy, one of my 1920s Suit Guys, it’ll be great.

Me: I can probably draw -

Leyendecker: suit guy could kiss him on the head. 😘 . Like that. Say that.

Me: 🫡

J.C. Leyendecker, “man and jockey clothing advertisement,” 1923. This is how we sell men’s suits, apparently.