A few days back I talked about the proverbial “light at the end of the tunnel”.  Over the past four days, that light’s gotten much brighter thanks to taking care of my other daughter, who was moving into a new apartment.

It was a brutal series of days, renting a U-Haul to move all her stuff (and, by the Gods, has she accumulated a lot of it!) to the new apartment but by Saturday we were done and on Sunday we drove back home and today I sit here eager and ready to get back to some serious writing.

In the meantime, I managed to produce two more inked sketches using the iPad and Procreate (the art app).

Here’s the first one, and I’m mighty proud of it:

The picture is of Deborah Harry, the singer of the band Blondie, in all her majesty.  Blondie was/is a terrific band and Ms. Harry was, for many years, a great crush of mine.  Not to get all shallow, but she is easily one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever had the pleasure to see, if only through the TV or pictures.

Rock on, Ms. Harry!

Next up is another woman, an actress in this case, that I feel is among the most beautiful to ever exist.  Alas, my attempt at making her picture fell, IMHO, flat…

So here’s the deal: Since beginning these pictures, I’ve at times hit “home runs” and at other times did a decent enough job but felt I could’ve done better.  Of the pieces I’ve done, the one I’m probably most disappointed with remains the Lauren Bacall piece (you can see it here).  This one, alas, is also a disappointment.

However, and paradoxically, I think this picture actually isn’t all that bad “as is”.  But as a picture of the absolutely stunning and luminous actress Susan George… it just doesn’t work.

Though she’s been in some really dark films -none darker than the original Straw Dogs– I’ve always pictured Ms. George as accented in bright lights, her pale skin, beautiful blonde hair, and bright big eyes front and center and her entire being sexy as hell.

Alas, in this piece I’ve presented someone who looks like they belong in a noir feature and whose features are way too hidden in dark shadow.

Don’t know why it turned out that way but I knew I was in trouble when I erased the face, re-tried it, didn’t like what I was doing, erased again and re-tried it again and, after doing the same four times, gave up.  It just wasn’t working the way I wanted it to.

Again, however, I feel the picture itself turned out perfectly fine… if my subject was someone other than Susan George.

Oh well, on to the next piece!