After seeing the film "Five Easy Pieces" last week I decided to continue my (small) series of drawings of crying women in film...so far I have Debbie Reynolds in "Singin' in the Rain" and Anna Karina in "Vivre sa vie." This is Karen Black in a scene early in the film where she's sitting in the car outside of the bowling alley. This lady cries pretty much throughout the whole film, but this was one of the few times you can see her face easily. I tried to capture the washed-out color of early '70s film...I liked the idea of her head floating in a sea of pale yellow hair.
So that was the first drawing I made (above). After I finished it, I decided I wanted to try again and cartoon-ify it a little bit, and the result (below) ended up looking like some weird neo-Lichtenstein creation:
And below is a real Lichtenstein:
Top drawing is various pencils and watercolor, bottom drawing is Sharpie marker and gouache. Maybe my next serious should be crying men in film...
My roomie received some weird Crayola paper and markers for Christmas - I believe they're called "Explosive Color" - because the marker reacts with the special paper in a way that makes it look extra bright, almost like poster paint. I made this weird little drawing last night, just messing around with the markers...
