Cruella

The wikipedia description bits of use "In the original story, Cruella is a depicted as a pampered and glamorous London heiress who knows the owner of the Dalmatian puppies from school, though it is mentioned that they were not friends and that she frightened the young Mrs. Dearly. She was a menacing student with black and white plaits, and was expelled for drinking ink." and " She is married to a furrier, who is not named in the book, and they have no children. Cruella is portrayed as the tyrannical figure in the marriage, and her husband as a meek, subservient man who seldom speaks and obeys his wife entirely. He supplies Cruella with extravagances, such as the white mink cloak she often wears with skin-tight satin gowns and ropes of jewels in contrasting colours, such as a black dress with ropes of pearls, or a green dress with ropes of rubies." Cruella was actually one of the most fun characters as not only had already been drawing bits that would suit her, I was also interested to find out that she's not out and out evil she's just the rich brat type that's always had money and gets what they want. From this I researched fashion from the time the book was published (1956). I really enjoyed finding the right look for her that also fit with the time and I think I did it well. I do think the face could do with some work still but it does look like it comes from money. I chose to keep the cloak short and as a fashion piece to have her further away from the Disney version and from the white witch, who also wears white fur.This is another one where I spent a while looking at how the eye and eyebrow shape changes the effect. I spent a while working on the face shading for cruella, the larger shadow over her face that highlights the cheekbones turn her from just being fashionable to being uncaring. I think I could have done better with the colour as the background is so dark and she is only wearing black and white, so she doesn't stand out that well. but I do like the way that her outfit has the running theme.