Harley Quinn (DC Comics) WIP 2

Since I did a Harley piece fairly recently I decided to go in a completely different direction this time. That one was more of a costume redesign. This is going to be something else. I’m going to be recreating the famous Marilyn Monroe spread in the first ever playboy. I just thought it would be a fun idea to throw Harley into the scene and see what it would look like.

I’m basing the body composition on Marilyn but of course the face is Margot Robbie. Normally I would put in a big complicated scene where but that pictorial famously only had her against a silk curtain and this time I’m going for classic but with a twist. I really like the lines here and I need to make sure I follow through properly.

It’s hard to overstate how big Marilyn Monroe being the centerfold of that first issue was. Playboy was actually in danger of being cancelled even before the first issue because no one believed it could work as a concept. Nude women presented as high art? Nude women as classy? Couldn’t work. Marilyn Monroe was a huge star, already a sex symbol. Her being in the magazine made people buy it and see what it could be.

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