Prologue :
    
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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.
Noir style illustrations :
    Gallery 2  \Private Dicks \ Dames \ Femme Fatales \ Crime\ Palookaville| 06/03/07
femme fatale
Hard Boiled Private Dick
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n oppressive atmosphere of menace, pessimism, anxiety, suspicion that anything can (and inevitably will) go wrong, dingy realism, futility, fatalism, defeat and entrapment were stylized characteristics of film noir. The protagonists are normally driven by their past or by human weakness to repeat former mistakes."
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Artwork Details :
     Artists Description and general comments.

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.

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