![]() So, that’s it for part one of The Fifth Element series. This is a pretty common subject of fan art related to the movie. Although I like how it turned out, another fair criticism is that the scene is probably fairly cliche and predictable. And the shading on the multipass side of her face definitely should have been darker, which is a recurring issue for me…definitely something I need to work on, confidence with darker shadows. I also could have used more detail in the faces on her multipass. Also, I’m not sure about the perspective/sizing of her hand. What do I wish was different? As I mentioned, I would have liked to have more characters in it, so bigger paper would have been good. Amazingly, after filling in her hair, I can’t even tell where the biggest greasy spot was. Even though the paper is moderately thick, its integrity was somewhat compromised, and I was worried I’d rip a hole in it. Somehow, I got a big greasy blob of food right in the middle of the page! This happened fairly early in the process, and I almost abandoned it. This is a good example of the occasional hazards of drawing around your kids though…and of eating/having food near your art space. I think this one was largely a success – I captured the character’s look, and it does resemble the actress as well. So, here’s how the drawing from that scene turned out: Her exclaiming “multipass” all over the airport was pretty funny, sort of like shouting “drivers license” every time someone asks you for I.D. In much of the movie, Leeloo doesn’t understand English ( interesting side note: the language she speaks was made up by the director, and Jovovich learned it and could have conversations with him in it). ![]() I think “Leeloo Dallas Multipass” has cemented a place in niche pop culture, and is one of the more memorable lines from The Fifth Element. She’s got some pretty funny fish out of water moments, one of which is what I based my sketch on: In the movie, she’s the key to defeating an evil planet, but has only recently been introduced to the modern world. Her actual name is a long jumble of words meaning “supreme being,” but Bruce Willis just settled for the first couple of syllables in Leeloo. After all, she is the actual “fifth element” referenced in the title of the film. The first one is Leeloo, which is pretty fitting. Ultimately, I decided to just split up the characters and do this in 3-4 separate drawings. I only ever use 9 x 12 sheets, but this could have been a good candidate for something bigger. I’ve thought about this before, but planning for these characters made me wonder if it really is time to work on larger paper. Not to mention the fact that none of the protagonists appear with Zorg in the movie, so I’d have to make something up. That’s a challenging amount of people to get into one page while having room for detail. I wanted to do something featuring the big four – Korbin Dallas (Bruce Willis), Leeloo (Milla Jovovich), Ruby Rhod (Chris Tucker), and Zorg (Gary Oldman). Actually, I think pretty much every character in this movie is well done, from the main folks all the way to the supporting cast. Little Light of Love Īnd now to the characters, which are definitely a strong point. ![]() Then I soldered the little contact disc onto the middle. First I stuck some copper tape onto the inside of the 'hatch', from one side to the center. That electronic gizmo I mentioned earlier had another useful part - a little metal disc with a sprung protrusion, which sits under the battery and keeps pressure on it. In the end I gave up and decided to 'MacGuyver' something together. Try as I might I could not find a button tiny enough. Checking the film I noticed that the LED does stand quite proud from the main body. The four 'legs' in the corner were much shorter by now. ![]() After that I rubbed it over a sheet of wet & dry paper until the base was flat and I had reduced the height by as much as I could. I knew that this might be vulnerable to damage (and I also knew that once it was inside the multipass I'd never be able to get at it again) so once I had soldered on two wires, I covered the base of the LED in epoxy to seal it.
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