The Dark Lady

I had an image in mind of a Dark Lady with demons surrounding her, and she was wearing something smokey and black. I also felt I should work from a photo reference of some kind. So after some internet surfing I came across a stunning picture of Katie Holmes. She had short hair in the photo, but it had the sense of motion I wanted to capture, and she was wearing her trademark mischievous smirk (recently parodied by another fave femme fatale of mine, Anne Hathaway on SNL). The image got me drawing right away.

And while I didn’t get the clothing or demons in the drawing, I was quite happy with the way it turned out.

HB #2 Pencil on an old Strathmore drawing pad my dad found unused.

What do you think of this piece?