"I'll stake my Pulitzer on it!"
This drawing of Pulitzer Prize winning star journalist Amy Archer from The Hudsucker Proxy took me FOREVER to finish. Not only do I generally have trouble drawing women, but a character as dynamic as Jennifer Jason Leigh portrays in this film was even more challenging to represent. I love her fast-talking no-nonsense Katherine Hepburn/Rosalind Russell-inspired performance, and she's probably my favourite Coen heroine, so I felt I had to do her justice.
I settled on this pose in an effort to get this finished. I'm not sure it captures how tough and animated the character is, but I tried to make her look like a classic 50's fashion illustration, as well. She wears many different costumes throughout the film and I wanted to pick one that I could recreate faithfully. It's also from my favourite of her scenes:
