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Published: 2013-09-26 22:15:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 4119; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 0
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This was commissioned about 15 years ago, and appeared in little magazine called Bare Bones, and is obviously a rough pastiche of the 1930s pulp illustration style.Related content
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sort of an anti-Shadow...I love the gritti-ness of the 30's noir
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Although I love this era, it's a fairly unusual image for me - it was dictated by the person who commissioned the work, now almost 18 years ago. I see what you mean by The Shadow reference, although I somehow wasn't very familiar with that character when I drew this.
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No matter.., I enjoy your imaginative art!
MZ
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"Butt out doll or eat lead! The dame's none of your concern!" Those were the last words I heard before darkness exploded from behind my ear like cannon shot.
I awoke to an aneurysmal throbbing and the painful realization that there had been a second rapscallion. No, I didn't have the bare bones of an idea why they wanted the woman, but I was pretty sure a certain medical student did.
So I picked my sad carcass up and stumbled along the damp cobblestone toward the morgue down Whitechapel. They didn't call me Molly WonderBred for nothing.
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Now I want to know what happens next!!!
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One can see every single stroke, and it gives the drawing a "clean" expression.
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Thanks - that's good, because it cancels out the 'dirty look' that guy is giving us!
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A contrariety, but why? Okay, opposite characteristics are interesting, for example a bad guy without black hairs, or a good guy without light hair. Should it show, that the world isn't so black and white, how one could imagine?
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I think you're right about this, and I've often tried to represent 'good' and 'bad' in unexpected ways. However, because this drawing is my attempt to recreate something from a much earlier era (thirties America), the bad man here looks very menacing indeed, although, if we were to look closely, we might see that his hair was dyed, and his thin mustache enhanced with eyeliner. Apart from these vain indulgences, he's a thoroughly nasty character without one single ounce of charm. You would cross to the other side of the road if you saw him walking toward you.
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So, he should represent the naked devil? No good in him?
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No, the Devil, whether represented by a male or female, should always be charming and attractive, or who would listen, and be lured away from the path? This is just a thoroughly nasty human being, a demon, perhaps, but not the Devil.
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