Rhapsodies

This is one of the times I do not like the random factor of this exercise because if I’d been making my own daily choices on this thing I would not have chosen two Orson Welles films in the same week! The great thing about Citizen Kane is that it’s one of the great character studies in film. The bad thing about Citizen Kane (from this humble illustrator’s perspective) is that’s pretty much all it is.

Sure I can go on for hours about the mes en scene, the amazing cinematography and chiaroscuro but I couldn’t think of an image that said Citizen Kane (at least not in five minutes) sure there’s the Kane for Governor poster and Kane and his partners standing on the newspaper… but everyone does that.

So I’m afraid I phoned it in with a very quick and rough sketch of the Xanadu estate sale.