Betty Blue

In the 70's I went to an art house film where the the picture poster caught my eye dragging me in and on the way out I asked if I could have a copy of the poster which I duly received. The film was a typical French film of the era with love making, verbal and physical fights between the lovers and some violence.

Any way the poster has been hanging my house for nearly 40 years and yesterday has been my first none working day for about 4 months so this is the result. Betty the main character was a manic depressive so that is why there are two Betty's and that is not in the poster. Although I worked from the original which is in my office it not traced only copied by eye.

by eye???,
OUTSTNADING!!!!!!

You've captured Béatrice Dalle perfectly. I remember the film very well, horror of horrors, I copied it from the tv onto vhs and I was thinking only recently of converting it to DVD. Remarkable work, especially as it hasn't been hand traced.
Saludos,
Bob.

Great work Peter.

Great and perfect work for copy and draw by eye, I like your drawing, looks beauty. Regards BP

Incredible piece Peter! :)

Great! I wish you more none working days.
Sven-Ingvar

Maybe you need to take more time off, Pete. :)

Lovely/haunting image.

That's an excellent piece of work you did there, Peter.

Nothing wrong with tracing, even if you had. This is goregous work and you have an obvious talent for drawing. I like the style as well.

Hello Albacore, I have seen the Betty Blue poster before and upon seeing your post I looked it up again just to confirm my first notion. Yup, I actually like yours better than the image in the original poster. More specifically, the softer focus and the expression on the face.

I have long been a fan of Beatrice Dalle, and think she is still, hmmm, shall we say.., hot. Eh, I ramble.

Saw her most recently as a psychopathic killer in the very bloody, intensely horrific French horror movie called "Inside". I liked it a lot, probably more than I should have.

Anyway, move over Jason Voorhees mom. LOL

Thanks again Albacore, absolutely love it.

Gee I am over whelmed by your comments, thanks to you all. I am glad to think that I am not the only sad person that goes to foreign films.

At the moment I have two jobs the main one with a health board which involves so called graphics, my backside! I am now called the whiz kid of Power Point as if anyone has a presentation to do I get landed with it as well as publishing many local health board newsletters. Well it brings in the money and I can work from home mostly, Thanks again for your real nice comments but if you had been staring at a poster for about I think 37 years you could draw it from memory never mind from eye.

Wow, that is really beautifull. you should be proud of yourself.

And foreign movies, almost all movies are foreign to me. That happens automatically if you don`t life in the states ;)

This is beautifully done, I like the way you rendered her.

Michele

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Originally Posted by Albacore

...I am glad to think that I am not the only sad person that goes to foreign films.

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Just a slight thread hijack here...I suppose I'm a sad person too, but my favourite films are all foreign, or mostly so. I can strongly recommend to the forum the following: Night On Earth, Life Is Beautiful, Cinema Paradiso, Buena Vista Social Club, Jean de Florette / Manon des Sources and Il Postino just for starters. They will all make you laugh and cry, they are so much better than the blockbuster type movie that swamps the market usually. Of course, there are English language films that are equally life-affirming too, Goin' South, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Dean Spanley and The Producers just to name a few.
Note to moderators; perhaps it would be a good idea to start an off topic thread with this reply as a first post, but I do feel that it also has its place being left here too.
Saludos,
Bob.

Only true artists can do that. Really impressive. Portraits are one of the most difficult tasks for illustrators... Lupen