victoriana

Oh Alexia!

Oh Alexia!

In between doing what I’m supposed to be doing and what I’m really supposed to be doing, I whipped this fanart up—gee when was the last time I did fanart on a novel? :P OK, I have incentive, because I really, really, really, really, really, really want to win the manga preview of Gail Carriger’s [...]

Illustration Friday: Forward

Illustration Friday: Forward

Remember at the very beginning of Jane Eyre (the 2011 movie) when Jane barges out of Thornfield Hall, and never once looks back, just walks FORWARD? Yeah, powerful stuff. And because I am such a masochist for Victorian misery, I very much enjoyed drawing up the anguished Jane here. Tried a different technique in Photoshop [...]

Reader, I don’t get the sameness

Jane Eyre is one of the world’s most loved books. It certainly is very special to me. And with the pending film release of yet another adaptation (I’m terrified of seeing it, yet I cannot wait!), there’s been a recent influx of reissues of the classic novel, penned by Charlotte Bronte in the 19th century. [...]