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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on Apr 26, 2016 10:38:11 GMT -5
Hello! I'm planning to start a huge project of illustrating all of ASOUE (and then at some point moving on to ATWQ) so I thought I would start a thread here to post my drawings as I go. This first one isn't actually one of the illustrations, but it's a drawing of Violet I did a year or so ago so I thought I'd post it here as a sort of starting point.
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Post by Reba on Apr 26, 2016 11:48:25 GMT -5
the darkies competition is closing in on you, Poe's Coats Host Toast. now would really be a good time to break out your triptych trick
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on Apr 26, 2016 12:51:00 GMT -5
Oh, and from the same time as the picture of Violet, here's one I drew of Quigley -- although he also kind of reminds me of Jacques. Obviously both drawings show them as older than they are during the course of the books. These drawings are quite outdated for me and I can do much better now, but they're still some of my favourite ASOUE drawings I've done, so they're a good place to start.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Apr 26, 2016 13:00:48 GMT -5
the darkies competition is closing in on you, Poe's Coats Host Toast . now would really be a good time to break out your triptych trick I pulled a diptych trick already. I'm too busy for a triptych. Very nice work, violetbunfortunate! On first sight they looked like linocuts to me; interesting/cool penciling technique you got there.
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on Apr 26, 2016 13:06:57 GMT -5
Thank you! They're actually pen, but I can't remember the name of the type I used. One of those 'artist' pens (she said very unhelpfully).
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on May 3, 2016 10:11:50 GMT -5
My first illustration! I thought for a long time before starting this project about how I wanted my illustrations to be totally unique; Helquist's work has left such a mark on the series that I felt if I only did straight illustrations they would always feel like re-hashings of his work, especially as Helquist has been a huge influence on my own work. So I decided that, to match the way in which the books are written, with Snicket being a part of his own world and the books in effect being case files on the Baudelaires, I would illustrate it as if I were helping to compile these files. So some illustrations (like the one below) aren't exactly direct scenes from the books, but rather a compilation of objects, notes and photographs which might have found their way on to Snicket's desk during his research. Other illustrations will be more like regular illustrations -- scenes taken directly from the book -- so that I will eventually end up with a whole sort of jumbled collection of drawings which will be rather like a bunch of haphazard notes telling the Baudelaires' story. This illustration fits with Snicket's first introduction of the Baudelaires, and features notes about Sunny's unique words, and some questions, etc. Snicket might have scribbled down. There's also a smooth stone -- potentially collected from the Hotel Denouement pond -- and a hermit crab. Oh, and the fountain pen's lid has a sort of eye shape on it.
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on May 6, 2016 8:04:37 GMT -5
My second illustration! This time it's one of the more regular illustrations, showing the Baudelaires visiting their mansion after it burned down. I'm really excited about this project and thank you to the people who have liked my drawings and commented: feedback is muc appreciated. I have lots of ideas for specific scenes and things I want to draw, but if anyone has any moments from the books they'd particularly like to see illustrated, please let me know! 'Mr. Poe had taken them to the remains of the Baudelaire mansion to see if anything had been unharmed, and it was terrible ... '
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Post by Hermes on May 7, 2016 11:51:31 GMT -5
These are fascinating, V.: I really like your approach.
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on May 7, 2016 12:38:41 GMT -5
These are fascinating, V.: I really like your approach. Thank you so much! I want to be an illustrator so doing illustrations for my favourite books is great practice as well as immensely fun. Getting feedback is so useful so if you have more comments when I upload more drawings please let me know!
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on May 10, 2016 11:17:44 GMT -5
My third illustration! Back to the Snicket's desk POV. This is a bunch of evidence, etc. which may have found its way on to his desk when he was researching the Baudelaire's first meeting with Count Olaf. If you want to know what any of the objects are/their significance please ask. I will just explain the flowers -- I included them partly because Justice Strauss was gardening when she first met the Baudelaires, but I specifically chose the flower 'Baby's Breath' because it represents, among other things, innocence and purity, and this is the first moment that the Baudelaires truly step into their new lives in a way -- their old lives were left behind at Briny Beach, but when they were staying with Mr. Poe I feel like they were in a kind of limbo, not truly anywhere, in a sense. So when they meet Count Olaf, they are still very innocent to the ways of the world, and that's what these flowers represent. 'There was a pause, and then the door creaked open and the children saw Count Olaf for the first time. "Hello hello hello," Count Olaf said in a wheezy whisper.'
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on May 10, 2016 11:20:12 GMT -5
Wow OK that picture came out way bigger than the others. I have no idea as they're all about the same size in real life, but never mind, you can see more detail this way.
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Post by trip on May 10, 2016 11:59:51 GMT -5
These are all so gorgeous, well done! It's so fun to look through all the little details on the desk illustrations and decipher what they are and what they mean.
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on May 10, 2016 12:16:43 GMT -5
These are all so gorgeous, well done! It's so fun to look through all the little details on the desk illustrations and decipher what they are and what they mean. Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoy finding the details in them; it's so much fun deciding what references to put in and how to do it, etc.
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Post by Esmé's meme is meh on May 10, 2016 21:45:42 GMT -5
Beautiful! Love your style, really interesting. Keep up with the good work!
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on May 11, 2016 4:20:01 GMT -5
Beautiful! Love your style, really interesting. Keep up with the good work! Thank you so much! I'll try to!
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