Brando

I was thumbing through a magazine the other day and ran across this photo from "A Streetcar Named Desire". I haven't seen this movie in years.

Anyway... I started drawing Stanley and Blanche.

I was amazed to find how Brando's profile resembled the classic profiles of Renaissance sculptures and painting. Very chiseled - opposing curves and arcs. I supposed it's the Italian look.
(Michelangelo's Libyan Sybil for the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Note the similarities in the bone structure:)

Trying harder to capture the anger in his eyes here. Still not sure I got it.

I started getting more and more caricatured. And included Vivian Leigh in this one. I didn't get the tilt of her head quite right. She's tilted a bit toward the camera in the photo. It was a bit too subtle for me to capture. Especially since I went straight to ink - no pencil underdrawing.

I intentionally pushed them closer together. I liked the intimacy & tension in the moment. So pushing them closer and increasing Brando's leaning angle kept that feel.
Then I just started doodling random faces in pencil, trying to see how much information I could capture with a minimum of detail.