Dallas Winston from S. E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders. Really choice book; anyone who hasn't read it, I highly recomend it.

Dallas Winston is 17 years old. He is tougher, meaner and colder than the other greasers, who must exercise caution around him lest he lash out at a stray remark or joke. He spent three years on the streets of New York and was first arrested and jailed at the age of 10. Dally reacts violently to others, even his friends, and avoids showing emotion as much as possible. He does have a soft spot for Johnny, and is very protective of him. Dally is also extremely loyal to the group of friends; he takes the rap for Two-Bit when he vandalizes the school, he helps Ponyboy and Johnny when they need direction after the killing, and he tries to save Johnny when the roof of the burning church collapses on him. Dally has a record with the police "a mile long". When Johnny dies, Dally's world collapses and he eventually commits police-assisted suicide.

I dunno why I want to draw him all the time. I just love his character; he's that bad kid that wants to be a good person secretly, and he's jsut got that whole reputation to take care of. I don't think he ever gave anyone a real choice smile, so I wanted to draw him all happy...and stuff. I hate that I can't do more with his purty white-blonde hair, but that's cool. Because his pretty blue eyes are enough. I want to draw him all over sometime (like a full body thing) but I dunno if I'll ever get around to it.


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Dallas Winston (c) S. E. Hinston
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