Bruceploitation - By ~ MLBOA

by MLBOA

I thought it would be quite interesting to dedicate a drawing to Bruce Lee look-alike actors instead of Bruce Lee himself! It's probably a guilty pleasure of mine that I actually enjoy watching these movies because many are so bad that I can't help but like them!

For this drawing I focused on the 3 main Bruce Lee imitators. Bruce Li, Dragon Lee and Bruce Le.
Bruce Li is my fav and is by far the best Lee imitator. He actually appears 3 times in this drawing, left side close up screaming, center upper torso with his right arm up and right side topless upper torso.
Dragon Lee is at the top center looking directly forwards.
Bruce Le is at the bottom right wearing the cat suit seen in Game of Death.

This is probably the first time in ages I've done a complete b&w pen drawing with a single biro pen. Usually with a dark background I use a black felt tip pen marker but this drawing I only used a single biro pen to draw and shade after doing the pencil outlines. I don't think I would do this pen method often as shading really felt like it took forever! So many layers upon layers of pen shading!
The background effect was originally behind the ref pic of Bruce Li with his right arm up. At first all I was planning was a solo drawing of him complete with background. Ken suggested adding other Lee imitators. By that time I had already done basic pen outlines for the background so I thought it's too late. Afterwards I thought it would be interesting to try and make them part of the background. This took much more time to finish but overall I like the snowy background effect. It's different to what I normally do.