Some Rambo illustrations...
When I made these 'drawing exercices' I had never seen a Rambo movie.
I had known Sylvester Stallone for years as 'Rocky Balboa', but I only knew 'Rambo' from small pictures in TV program magazines. I had never seen a Rambo movie until then and propably that was a good thing. The magazine photos of the cool Sylvester Stallone as Rambo inspired me to make these illustrations.
I thought there was something modern heroic about that character.
Later I saw some Rambo movies and they are not really my thing. Way too overdone for my taste. Well... regrets always come too late, don't they?...
But I still like my drawings, so I'm showing them here anyway.
The environment is completely made up by me, it's not from the movies.
He looks very heroic, but actually I also wanted to show the ugliness of war here. Quite contradictory, I know...
A minimalistic version...
Obviously this is all about heroism, no more criticism of the war here.
Zoomed in, he looks even more heroic to me...
Here with a little more atmosphere around it...
And a dark version!
I used the same head every time, did you notice?
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Don't mind the weapons! I'm not a weapons expert, I just made up a few... nothing realistic.
It's about the image, the mood, the story, not about the weapons, right? ;-)