10 Strangest Pinup Artist Quirks

#9 Gil Elvgren’s Puckered Lips

When you think of pinups, you conjure up that tangled damsel in distress, with a surprised, yet sexy expression on her face. You know the one I’m talking about- the pout. Elvgren, the cheesecake master, solidified the pout in pinup art. A more thorough scrutiny of Elvgren’s art, however, reviles that not only did he prefer the pout, it dominates his work, and he over emphasizes it to the ridiculous. Yes, the Elvgren girls pout in the strangest of situations.

#8 Hubert De Lartigue Likes Big Butts

Hubert De Lartigue’s fetish is quite obvious… and round. When De Lartigue gets the chance to paint a model’s backside, it seems to always end up a little bigger and rounder than god intended, creating some fantastic...


and some disturbing results.

#7 Lorenzo Di Mauro Likes Big Breasts

Lorenzo Di Mauro sure knows how to pick’em. With the exception of Betty Page, all his models have gone through a silicone breast transplant. To his defense- he paints them spectacularly.

#6 Greg Hildebrandt’s White Haired Goddesses

Greg Hildebrandt has one platinum blond model that keeps on coming back. In many cases Hildebrandt portrays her deliberately has having white hair. It’s a wacky one, I’ve only seen this before on a Petty Girl. (Not including a few comics and cartoon characters.)

#5 Elizabeth Austin’s Amazing Disappearing Nipples

Elizabeth Austin tries not to be overly explicit, and usually finds convenient ways to hide the nipples. Sometimes, though, I miss my share of nipples,in Austin’s paintings

#4 Frank Frazetta’s Muscular Damsels in Distress

Typical to a comics artist, Frank Frazetta draws very tone women. Frazetta’s women, however, happen to be extraordinarily muscular, even thick, and yet round and voluptuous. What daunts me most, is that even Frazatta’s damsels in distress seem bulky enough to take care of themselves…

#3 Carlos Diez’s Gravity Defying Breasts

We talked about Lorenzo Di Mauro’s silicone obsession, now we turn to Carlos Diez’s graviton problems. This is not just a boob enhancement, this is an intergalactic shift of balance. As in De Lartigue’s case hey are rounder and bigger than nature would ever allow.


To be fair, that head-piece would snap my head off, like a twig.

#2 Peter Driben’s Mystery of The Lost Belly Button

Some may call me petty, but Peter Driben’s girls are missing a belly button. Sometimes you get the hint of a navel, other times; it’s just not there. Could it be that Driben couldn’t be bothered, to draw the belly button? Did he think the remains of a birth canal were unsexy? Or was it the opposite: did he think the umbilicus was to racy a body part to graphically portray?

#1 George Petty’s Detached Heads

Petty had a phone fetish, that’s the obvious one. The one I can’t wrap my head around, is his detached heads. It looks like he cut and past the same head over and over again, but the pasting part didn’t go all to well. Definitely the top of this list, for deformation of the human form… Yuck!




I hope you enjoyed this week’s list of pinup quirks,

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