The
principal emotional states represented in classic Film
Noir cinema consist of melancholy, estrangement,
desolation, disenchantment, pessimism, ambiguity,
evil, guilt, desperation and paranoia and moral
corruption ( pretty much me on
a bad day). The heroes (or
anti-heroes), villains and two-bit
players include down-and-out, conflicted hard-boiled
'dicks' or private eyes, cops, gangsters, G-men,
sociopaths, crooks, war vets, petty crims, and
murderers. These protagonists are often morally-ambiguous
low-lifes from the dark and dank underbelly of
crime and corruption. Distinctively, they are cynical
tarnished souls (usually
men), obsessive (sexually
or otherwise), brooding, menacing and
sinister, sardonic, disillusioned, frightened or
insecure loners, with a tendency to internally
monologue, struggling to survive in a world they
can't stand.
Film noir explores the dark and cruel aspects of
humanity with all its cynicism and doomed love, emphasizing the
brutal, unhealthy, seamy, shadowy, and sadistic sides of the
human condition. |
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Illustration
Gallery 1
Illustration
Gallery 2
Cartoon
Characters 
Art
of the Sisterhood
Versache
the Barbarian
Sketchpad
(in Progress) 
Fantasy
Illustrations
Jewellery
Design/Creation
Client : Personal Study Pieces.
Brief : All 4 pieces are drapery studies.
Medium : Mixed media : pencil, squeakers. Colour and shading added in Adobe Photoshop.
Medium : Pen Sketch : Coloured and Doctored in Adobe Photoshop.
Medium : Watercolour (scanned under glass) 28cm by 20cm :
Original - 1990 a.d Expanded and Enhanced in Adobe Photoshop - 2003 a.d
Medium : Digital illustration : created in Adobe Photoshop 2007 a.d.
Design Notes : The study of the clothed human body dealing with the intergral facts, details and
systems of wrinkles and drapery as influenced by the movement and activity of the human form.
Soundtrack (music to draw to) : Vangelis - the City.