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Drawn as a Christmas present for my Nan. Right now I'm really proud of it though time will tell

Inspiration/ideas:
The fantastic references
The Wide Sargasso Sea and the atmosphere Jean Rhys describes of the Caribbean- heat, fever, dark, violent; lush, alive, beautiful, but threatening and decaying.From the blurb:
In her brilliant novel, Jean Rhys rescues the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and brings her to life as the beautiful and tragic Antoinette Cosway. The story takes us to Antoinette's beguiling Caribbean island, a lush and ravaged Eden ripped apart by escalating tensions between the former slaves and the Creole heiress's colonial family. Antoinette's marriage to a visiting Englishman seems to promise escape from the island's violent distress. But the lovers' intense affair takes a sinister turn before the honeymoon is over, as they become caught in a haunting and passionate tangle of rumour, history and betrayal.

This picture doesn't really match in enough ways though (I didn't want to draw something too creepy for my nan!) so I will do something else to more closely sum up how amazing that book is. I still haven't finished it though! Its only 150 pages long and I've been reading it for months, but it pulls me into the atmosphere so much I want to savour it and make it last ^^
Trying to show the bright rich colours of the shadows without any colour..
Time: 4 or 5 hours
References: [link] and [link] (thanks so much)
Title: Astral Eyes - 3 Daft Monkeys (though not anything to do with the lyrics really hehe just the title seemed to match. Gotta love the Daft Monkeys!)
Materials: 4B and mechanical pencil on Bristol Board <godly stuff that


Merry Christmas (or happy holidays if you prefer!) Deviantart