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Creative! Queer!! Autistic!!!

"Hazel eyes, he has..."

Beginning the digital process.
I've brought my pencil sketch into Illustrator. It's on it's own locked-down layer, while I am building my lines and shapes on their own separate layer.

This close-up shows my process starting with the shape of the face and the features, using the pen tool with the locked-down pencil sketch as a guide.

#WIP #WorkInProgress #Sketch #Sketchbook #Sketching #Drawing #TheLeatherBoys
#ColinCampbell
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Beginning the digital process. I've brought my pencil sketch into Illustrator. It's on it's own locked-down layer, while I am building my lines and shapes on their own separate layer. This close-up shows my process starting with the shape of the face and the features, using the pen tool with the locked-down pencil sketch as a guide.
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There were a few days at the beginning when I literally could do no more than sit upright at my desk… and even that took everything out of me.

I think I have one more picture in me for 2024… I think I can finish my portrait of Reggie from #TheLeatherBoys by New Years!
…And here’s one more sketch of him. I feel the same way when I daydream and doodle pictures of #MarcBolan ! He’s just dreamy.
🌈🤣🌈

Oh and one my therapists told me I should tell you all this: she is sending people to my #VENMO and I’m doing pencil sketch pet portraits in exchange for donations! I’ve already done a few, and total strangers have been very generous!

I will post some of those sketches tomorrow.

Another take, trying to figure out this man’s face. I DID figure out that his leather jacket is zipped all the way up, so good on me for that! My signature to the lower right.
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I’m figuring out what I like so much about his face and how to communicate it.

Also I just realized how this is such an example of my #ActuallyAutistic traits…

Neurotypical people don’t think about things this much (unless they are making money from it) and *certainly* not enough to do something creative with those thoughts…

And if they did, would it feel physically painful for them not to ACT upon that creative thoughts?

Some people might call it “inspiration”.

A page from my sketchbook, pencil sketches figuring out a man’s face.
Pencil sketch figuring out a man’s face. Getting closer to what I see in my mind.
#TheLeatherBoys#ColinCampbell#LGBTQ
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Pete may be the most complex character in the film.

I was uncomfortable with him at first, because he’s TOO MUCH, and when you realize where this story is going, his actions take on a predatory aspect.

BUT… it is clear that Pete is the character the director most identifies with. We seem to be seeing the story through his eyes. Reggie may be closest to a traditional protagonist, but Pete - and the actor, #DudleySutton - show an earnest vulnerability, a yearning for connection, that prevents him from coming across as a villain.

Pete, as obnoxious as he is, as manipulative as he is, is heartbreaking.
I can easily imagine what he saw as his future: living with Reggie, supporting his Grandmother, building a future of their own, riding motorcycles together, happily ever after.

… and he thought he was just moments away from his dreams coming true.

Reggie and Pete are lying on the bed, Reggie in the background, Pete extreme foreground, shot through the gleaming brass bed posts. Reggie is rough from drinking, while Pete is trying, in his own way, to come out to Reggie.
#TheLeatherBoys#LGBTQ#ColinCampbell
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At the beginning of the movie, Reggie comes across as a joke, a cartoon - his hair is a character unto itself! - but as his character gains gravity, he becomes more handsome and dashing.

I noticed right away, without knowing where the film was going, that he was filmed in the sexualized way that women are traditionally shot: his pants are waAaayyyy too tight, and he’s constantly bending over, displaying his butt for the camera.

His pivotal moment is when he stands up for his Grandmother… and he’s the only person in his family to do so.
This is when we see that he is a quality person, and that differentiates him from Dot, who is bound to repeat the same destructive patterns of her mother.

Pete and Reggie stand in A doorway. Pete looks skeptical. Reggie looks dashing, silk scarf tucked into his black leather jacket.
#TheLeatherBoys#ColinCampbell#LGBTQ
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