Gangster No. 1

When it's too cold to go outside sketching, I sit inside and draw things, sometimes inspired by movies I'm watching on DVD. Easy to go a bit stir-crazy here. But I'm getting better at painting these things, and quicker.

This is supposed to be David Thewlis and Saffron Burrows from Gangster No. 1, which is an interesting movie with a bad title. Malcolm MacDowell is in it, too, and he deserves his own drawing. It's a British gangster film which tries to tear down the image of the cool gangster. Difficult to do, when you're using cool actors to play your gangsters. But it manages to make a few points about violence and craziness, while basically showing all of that.