This schmoozing, wise cracking, minion-surrounded, powerful and allegedly based on a Hollywood studio chairman, villain has a very apropos portrait in my "Where Pictures Shine" series.
From the 30s to the 1960s, movie executives and stars dined in a restaurant in the center of Hollywood called the "Brown Derby". They would be seated beneath walls of framed caricatures of themselves, drawn by Polish immigrant Eddie Vitch. Like my series, these portraits were made up of a minimal amount of strong lines.
When I began drawing charcoal still-lifes of WDCC sculptures in 2004 I would usually end up smudging areas to create a soft three dimensional shape, and then applying oil pastel colors in the same way. You can see this in my "Charcoal and Oil" series.
I always veered however towards a stronger, heavy-handed application if you will, in my drawing. In art college I tended to use heavy lines during life study, even marking them several times over and over again if necessary to achieve the correct proportions. This may explain my frequent stumbling in art class back at school because we were only ever given the delicate media of water color paint to use.
So, do you think Hades, which is my drawing of the Ruben Procopio Walt Disney Classics Collection porcelain, would make a suitable portrait for your wall or maybe even the office of you agent or manager perhaps?
Will the Evil Queen keep her crown?
My "Where Pictures Shine" series of WDCC still-lifes all share some heavy charcoal lines. And in my drawing of the sculpture, "Bring Back Her Heart.." the charcoal takes on its most sinister appearance yet, almost looking like it's been 'burnt in' to the white, watercolor paper.
This 9.5" x 13" version of "Where Pictures Shine – Evil Queen and the Heart Box" is a Numbered Limited Edition of 24. Notice I used the phrase "most sinister… yet," you'll have to decide whether my drawing of the Queen's alter ego, the Hag will win that title when it débuts October 18th!