Late February to Late March

During the end of February to the end of this month I have been reading a lot of historical fiction watch some music videos and working on a project for a company that works woth youths from a young age until early twenties.

The first batch of drawings were loosely inspired by a historical romance novel called 'Gallant Officer, Forbidden Lady' by a well known Romance novelist Diane Gaston. This is in fact the second time that I have been inspired by this novelist's work and I can honestly say what drew me, to this novel was that the main protagonist Jack Vernon. He most certainly had a great and extraordinary mind to be an artist. His mind were always filled with everlasting images of a certain war that occurred within the novel. This was the first war, that left him with open scars of hatred and pain not only to his soul but also on one of the characters of which I won't mention. You'll have to read the book to find out. I admired him so much that he even went to the extent of recording what he visualised and pouring them into the cup of pages of his sketchbook. His studio were filled with mountains of sketchbooks.

This novel really did give me interest of Gaston as an auth

or and I will certainly keep up to date with her books.

Here are the drawings that inspired me while reading the book:

Coloured inks were used to add colour into the drawings.

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These two drawing were modified on Photoshop. The first one takes reference to a camera photo on my old phone. As for the second drawing, it was derived from

a walk home after creating a batch full of drawings my mind began to sing some lyrics to a very popular song that was released this year. These were the lyrics: "So just put your hands, on me on skinny jeans, be your teenage dreams tonight" My mind then began to play the second drawing which is featured before your eyes right now.

These last two drawings were created from pastels, one which is of a gentleman in regency clothing and the other is of a fictional character called Wizadora, from my childhood:

The final task that I have been working on is a storyboard and character studies for a film for my client. So far the majority of the characters have been completed and I am

still working on the storyboard: