Heroes_

Oh wow finally, the second installment to my film characters project.
After... wow. 2 months. Fucking incredible!

Anyways, same deal.
The main focus is line-work.
To have it so it's strong enough to stand on it's own;
and colour becomes clutter.
Again, inspired by the amazing Al Hirschfeld.




DETAILS

Sketched in Corel Painter.
Exported to Illustrator for line-work.
Finishing touches in Photoshop.

I did 3 characters instead of 5, as it was in the previous installment.
A lot of it has to do with my lack of time to work on personal projects.
And anyway I can only think of 3 really, really good film heroes.
For films from my generation, that is.

The following are reasons for which I chose these particular three:

• Actor's performance
• NOT being cliché; e.g. Superman, William Wallace, Indiana Jones (sorry, I love him though), etc.
• To me, what defines a hero is the fact that they could be not so very different from villains.
   They are in many ways flawed, which is the key to making them likeable to the audience.
   What seperates them from villains is that they're willing to acknowledge their flaws and mistakes,
   and they're willing to make the effort and/or sacrifice to better themselves, not only for
   themselves, but for those around them as well. A classic example would be Jules Winnfield
   from Pulp Fiction, who, however foolish it may sound, decided to take a different path
   from that of a gangster/hit-man, and become a "shepherd" to the "weak".


CHARACTERS' INFO

• Bob Harris from Lost In Translation, played by Bill Murray
• Leon from Léon, or Léon: The Professional, played by Jean Reno
• Jules Winnfield from Pulp Fiction, played by Samuel L. Jackson

There were others that I wanted to include,
such as Edward Scissorhands and Lester Burnham (from American Beauty),
but somehow, I just didn't get that right-on feeling as I did with the other 3.

Oh well.

Please enjoy.
And thanks for looking, as always.