The Career Girl
News Corp has put up a "Now Hiring" notice outside their door. A woman is reading it intently.
The senior editor walks out to get a hotdog from the stand across the street. He is surprised by the sight of the young redheaded girl.
Were they also hiring a secretary? No. They wanted a junior editor. Surely this lovely girl wasn't interested in getting that job?
The 1960s signified a great change. A debate about gender discrimination in the press, followed by the general debate about gender roles during the second-wave feminism, quickly raised the numbers of female reporters in the press from 1965 onward. (wiki)
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The theme for 
Somehow this word evokes scenes from the 1960's in my mind with old cars, stores and news agencies, billboards, 60's fashion, etc. So I decided to draw a scene with all these vintage things and added a little story to it. I hope my concept is not too far off from the theme!
The idea of a news room was inspired by the movie Good Night and Good Luck.
Drawing 1960 With ArtRage Lite Software
Here is a process montage of how I drew "Career Girl". I used a chiselled pen for the outline and watercolor brush to color everything. The process of how I paint digitally is always the same and I shared this in detail in one of my recent posts, Hana.
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