1950s artwork

How did artists like Norman Rockwell, Austin Briggs, Jon Whitcomb, and others create the believable unique faces that can tell a whole story by themselves? In a magazine cover, like those by Rockwell and Stevan Dohanos, the image, with its setting and, most of all, its characters, must convey an anecdote without any help from words. So each face must be carefully crafted to do its part in creating the drama⸺or comedy.

Illustration by Al Parker

https://flic.kr/p/vyLXRR | Cosmoplitan "Alien Love" April 1959

The girl was as proud as her father was rich. For Addie, this meant crisis– and maybe even a scandal." Alex Fulin "Runaway Bride" Redbook, Aug. 1958