Serial Killers: 04: Richard Slade [without his hat]

by engle

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Feb 22nd 2008
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bellows cave mary nick portrait richard slade
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Yes, he looks like a lousy double for Brad Pitt in Interview with the Vampire.
Yes, I based him on Nick Cave's photo from the cover of From Her to Eternity.

I like this IRL.

The Kindness of Strangers / Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
They found Mary Bellows cuffed to the bed
With a rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head
O poor Mary Bellows

She’d grown up hungry, she’d grown up poor
So she left her home in Arkansas
O poor Mary Bellows

She wanted to see the deep blue sea
She drove across Tennessee
O poor Mary Bellows

She met a man along the way
He introduced himself as Richard Slade
O poor Mary Bellows

Poor Mary thought that she might die
When she saw the ocean for the first time
O poor Mary Bellows

She checked into a cheap little place
Richard Slade carried in her old suitcase
O poor Mary Bellows

“I’m a good girl, sir,” she said to him
“I couldn’t possibly permit you in”
O poor Mary Bellows

Slade tipped his hat and winked his eye
And turned away without goodbye
O poor Mary Bellows

She sat on her bed and thought of home
With the sea breeze whistling all alone
O poor Mary Bellows

In hope and loneliness she crossed the floor
And undid the latch on the front door
O poor Mary Bellows

They found her the next day cuffed to the bed
A rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head
O poor Mary Bellows

So mothers, keep your girls at home
Don’t let them journey out alone
Tell them this world is full of danger
And to shun the company of strangers
O poor Mary Bellows
O poor Mary Bellows

Comments

Vart Says:

hmmm i personally dun like his lips but the rest is very good

Eshkenazi Says:

His lips do seem rather poofy but it makes it look like he's pouting or giving the sad puppy face to someone so it's kind of cute actually.

I like the colors you used and also, his hair and eyes are amazing.

He has very villainous eyebrows.

DeE AltMarK Says:

D: I'm so inlove with the way you paint.
I THINK HE LOOKS HOT.
and i love the shirt STRIPY.
AND THE HAIR. AND THE COLD EYES>: D

phocus Says:

what a handsome man!

i like the nose and facial expression 8DD

Anthropophagi Says:

hah what a great face and his hair oh man i love it <:

karyn Says:

looking at this now, he looks like jethro cave.