That's Your Uncle Talking (12)
Last Updated (Friday, 28 December 2012 18:03) Written by Administrator Monday, 08 November 2010 00:00
"Ridiculously Good Looking"
| Quality | Cringe | Comedy |
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Another "look I'm a great drawrer" page. Sorry. But tomorrow we'll have a bonkers looking 1977 one. I worry lately that these pages might have been drawn - gasp - when I was in 2nd or 3rd year in secondary school. Putting me at 12-14 years? Jesus, if my classmates only knew... "No seriously lads, I'm not a nerd I love AC/DC too." (thump)
Artwork Notes
Chaykin's version: 1977
Some people are just born with it.
Damned Genetics!
Death-by-Dimple
I was struggling once again to cram-in all the dialogue here so it looks as if I can't be bothered drawing. There really is an art to comic adaptation that fills me with awe. I think the better drawing at the bottom is copied from Chaykin's Marvel adaptation. It still doesn't look anything like Luke. It's more of a generic 1970's Hollywood handsome look, a la Dick Van Dyke's son in Diagnosis Murder. Sort of... extreme handsomeness verging on ugliness.
Hollywood Clone Wars
Do they breed them now? Most of the crap US TV shows have all these men who look virtually identical? Granite jaw and chin, neck wider than their heads and V-Shaped torso. But at least the age of the eye-brows perpetually up in the middle seems to have passed...
Chin Dimples
Whenever I drew hero types they absolutely HAD to have a chin dimple. I don't think they're really in-vogue anymore like in the '70s. Luke has a slight one but I think Hamill was well-cast. He's handsome but bearably so. He doesn't look like a wooden Filmation character or superhero-archetype. No, he's still a regular looking lad.
Oh, I wanted a chin dimple though. You'd think Han Solo would be the children's fave; charming, roguish, funny, handsome and violent; but I wanted to be more like Luke. My friend John S - also a mad SW fan - had enviable straight blonde hair and bit of a chin dimple. I suppose the grass is always greener, etc? I recall seeing - many years ago - a device that clamped onto a Victorian person's head to create one of these. The closest I've found is the one left (interesting website!).
Dad's Horrid Facts #1 (collect all 100)
Dad told me when I was a kid that "some people's dimples are so deep that they often have a little spot of blood in them; because they just never heal". Nice.
