Hollywood Muscle - Marilyn

3 milestones with this pic: my 400th deviantART submission, my first finished drawing of 2012, and my submission to 's January theme, "Movies and Hollywood".

This drawing is based, of course, on one of the most iconic images in Hollywood history: Marilyn Monroe in that white halter dress, her skirt being blown upward by the updraft from a subway tunnel vent in the 1955 movie The Seven Year Itch.

I was originally going to use this image as the basis for a Tetsuko Cosplay Calendar (TCC), but soon after #FemaleMuscle announced their January theme, I thought "why not do this pic 'straight': show what it would look like if Marilyn Monroe had muscles?"

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