I think Nancy is pretty cool and a great adversary for old Freddy Krueger. She was the only one in the whole show who was with it and she turned out to be pretty tough too. It would take a lot of guts to walk away with Krueger at your back.
While finding reference for this I found that Heather Langenkamp recently created ‘I am Nancy‘, a documentary about whats happened to her character in the past 30 years. I’m looking forward to checking it out. Go to the blog for some neat behind the scenes stuff and memories of her experience making the original ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’.
Something I really love that I found there is this little doodle below that Langenkamp did of Nancy for a t-shirt design. I thought including the coffee pot was the coolest! I’m not sure if I can accurately explain this, but I love little defining details and accessories for characters. One of the biggest reasons I did the above image for example is just to draw the streak of white hair. I was pumped to draw the Alice the Dream Master last time because of all the accessories she has representing each of her fallen friends (and brother).
Maybe what I’m looking for is icons? What is iconic of a character? Here for this little doodle Langenkamp got all them perfectly. I’m not totally sold on the phrase but I’ll get this shirt for the drawing anyway.
It also occurred to me how cool it would be to meet “Nancy”. A new goal of mine is now to find and attend whatever necessary convention I must. Unfortunately it looks like I discovered an interest in ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ right as she ends her appearances for this year. Hopefully there will be something set up for next year and damn it would be cool if Robert Englund was around as well.
