Friday, February 17, 2006

'Haunting' Beauty

Okay, okay - I have two confessions - (1) is that I feel the need to come up with compelling and, consequently, somewhat cheesy titles for these entries (for all three of you reading) and (2) I have a really bad discipline of falling for designs a little too quickly. Ideally, we should all have this incredible freedom to do a drawing and move on. I, however, kind of see the final in my head to begin with and devote my concentration to putting that idea onto the page. Hopefully, in the end, the designs work, but I'd like to be more open to enjoy a sketch but then continue in other directions and, in that, possibly coming up with an idea or design I wind up liking even more so in the end. I guess I could try working on that. Either way, I mention this as intro to my sketches of Theodora. She's the, for loss of better words, hottie in 'The Haunting'. Here's my first sketch. I borrowed from both Claire Bloom and Catherine Zeta. There was a very similar feline-like appeal to both actresses and I really wanted to employ that as the dominant appeal.
Theo, as a character, is pretty confident and in charge of herself. She's involved with this excursion to the Hill House to allow her lovers (all innuendo justified) to cool off. To Theo, it's simple: She's got a lot of love to share, the other two are the ones with the problem. Below are two more drawings. As you can see, I fell in love with the first drawing. The one thing I played around with was her hair - Catherine Zeta's hair in the later version was amazing, but way too Catherine Zeta and I wanted to work for something that said more about Theo as a character. The 'do' on the left is the one I chose to develop further

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