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Vampirella is a fictional character, a comic book vampire superheroine created by Forrest J Ackerman and comic book artist Trina Robbins in Warren Publishing’s black-and-white horror comics magazine Vampirella  (Sept. 1969). Writer-editor Archie Goodwin later developed the character from horror-story hostess, in which capacity she remained through issue  (Nov. 1970), to a horror-drama leading character. Vampirella was ranked 35th in Comics Buyer’s Guide’s “100 Sexiest Women in Comics” list. The heroine is a vampire, since she is the daughter of Lilith and needs blood to survive and has many of the typical vampiric powers, including superhuman physical abilities, shapeshifting into a bat, immortality, and a mesmeric stare. She is not prone to the race’s traditional weaknesses, such as daylight, holy water, garlic, or crosses. She does not attack people to drink their blood, except occasionally when she herself is attacked or desires to kill. She is almost always scantily clad in her signature red sling suit with a white collar and wearing shiny black knee-high boots. I grew up watching horror movies and reading comics. In Italy in the early 70s there were many erotic comics, but nobody has ever come close to the sensuality of  Vampirella.

Pencils on paper 33×24 cm

Rupert James Hector Everett ( born 29 May 1959) is an English actor and writer. He first came to public attention in 1981, when he was cast in Julian Mitchell’s play and subsequent film Another Country (1984) as an openly gay pupil at an English public school in the 1930s. He has since appeared in many other films, including My Best Friend’s Wedding, An Ideal Husband, The Next Best Thing and the Shrek sequels. He is openly gay. Between 2006 and 2010, Everett lived in New York City, U.S., but returned to London, because of his father’s poor health. In 2008, Everett purchased a home in the West London district of Belgravia . Rupert Everett was my first portrait. In addition to being a great actor, has been used as a reference to draw Dylan Dog, a very famous Italian comic.

Pencils on paper 33×24 cm

Pamela Denise Anderson (born July 1, 1967) is a Canadian-American actress. In addition to her acting career, she is also a model, producer, author, activist and a former showgirl, known for her roles on the television series Home Improvement, Baywatch and V.I.P.. She was chosen as a Playmate of the Month for Playboy magazine in February 1990. For a time, she was known as Pamela Anderson Lee (or Pamela Lee) after marrying Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee. Anderson is a member of the animal rights movement and has conducted campaigns condemning the commercial fur industry and promoting veganism through the animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). In 2006, she was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame. I think that water is one of the most difficult element to draw, the reflection of light on the ripples of  water and the transparency of this element, make it very difficult. Fortunately, Pamela Anderson made it nice every minute to draw.

Pencils on paper 33×24 cm

Noomi Rapace ( born 28 December 1979) is a Swedish actress. She achieved international fame with her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film adaptations of the Millennium series: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest. At the age of seven, Rapace was given her first film role, which was a non-speaking part in the film Í skugga hrafnsins by Hrafn Gunnlaugsson. This experience made her decide to be an actress.  She left home at age 15 and enrolled in a Stockholm theatre school. Her international fame has earned her leading roles in American cinema. She was cast in Ridley Scott’s blockbuster hit Prometheus, where she played the leading role, a scientist named Elizabeth Shaw. She had met Scott for the first time following the release of the Millennium trilogy movies, at which point he expressed a willingness to work with her and encouraged her to improve her accent. Prometheus was released in June 2012. After reading the trilogy of books by  Stieg Larsson and have seen the Swedish movie version, I could not help but draw the protagonist, the Swedish actress Noomi Rapace. His interpretation of the hacker Lisbeth Salander is extraordinary.

Pencils on paper 33×24 cm

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, (born 31 December 1937), is a Welsh actor of film, stage, and television, and a composer and painter. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre. In 1968, he got his break in film in The Lion in Winter, playing Richard I. Considered to be one of the greatest living actors, Hopkins is well known for his portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, its sequel Hannibal, and the prequel Red Dragon. Anthony Hopkins in addition to being a great actor, for me personally, gave the face to one of the greatest horror icons of all time: the doctor Hannibal Lecter. Thomas Harris’s books are amazing and I read them regularly every year.