And then there was one....

So, this is the first post of this blog. I"m hoping it'll shape up to be everything I hope it'll be!
Basically the concept of this is to talk to you about characters or fictional women who made an impression on me and stuck with me long enough to want to share it with you all.
I guess the starting point had to be this drawing of Demi Moore as Erin Grant from "Striptease" in 1996. I don't know exactly what made me draw this, but all i know is that at age 14 I felt the need to illustrate this character. And people, I don't want to be blowing my own horn but look at this! I think I did pretty well for a 14 year old, and yes, you have to overlook the face which is totally out of proportions and even a bit manga-esque but come one! Shadows on the back! They weren't that bad, were they?
Well, I guess this is a pretty random first post, because even Demi as a person or Erin her character are a pretty weird choice, but I guess for me it was the starting point of something. I've noticed at an early age that a character, often female, would struck a chord in me at a certain point and would make an impression so big it would stay with me and make me want to put it down on paper later...
I think what brought me to being interested in Erin is that she was the first of a string of heroines from the nineties, stars of some fauxh clichéd sexy thrillers, and that the sexy and naughty appeal of their performance interested me as a 14 year old as a taste of the forbidden. God knows this movie is pretty lame by modern standards, but at the time Erin, shaking her tittays to some Eurythmics soundtrack and bagging Burt Reynolds as a pervy congressman who just wants to be covered in vaseline and wear a cowboy hat/boots combo was pretty risqué....
I guess as a teen I saw a woman of the nineties, I think the message was that sexuality should not be feared, and that in a primal and sexist way those who can use it are fortunate and therefore should take advantage of it to get themselves out of tricky situations...
My memories are foggy, but I guess it had a proper moral, because I think in the end she chose her daughter and her family rather than money and power...
Oh well, there goes all my nineties ideals....