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#i just finished it last night actually! for like. the fifth time gfdhfg
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titus groan by mervyn peake has been my favourite book for years, but rereading it recently has reignited my love for it and also made me realise that i have never drawn the majority of the characters, so this is my attempt at rectifying the situation :-) you want to read titus groan. you want to read it so much
#artwork#i just finished it last night actually! for like. the fifth time gfdhfg#i am not sad about that though because there are three books in the series! on to the next one :-D#i had So Much Fun drawing all of these i love them all with my entire heart even the horrible awful ones. i adore them#quite a few of them were inspired (directly or indirectly) by mervyn peake's illustrations but mostly they were inspired by his descriptions#i cannot emphasise enough how good this book is i truly think it is the best book in the english language it's unbelievable#the characters are........unlike any characters in any other book they are so tangible and alive and so incredibly unique and inspired#also i only realised during my most recent rereading that one of the characters in this book (my favourite one :-D) has i think been#more influential than any other in my preferences for fictional characters. like every character i have liked since reading titus groan for#the first time has been inspired by him pretty much......hes the blueprint :-D#i wonder if you will be able to tell who it is.......i feel like it is quite obvious because i am as we know Very Very Predictable#anyway he is i think my favourite character in anything ever. like my favourite character in All Media. a high honour indeed given how many#fictional characters i am obsessed with#i just love all of them though. i love them all So Much#i think i mostly managed to capture them the way i see them in my head! some of them were more challenging than others#i must say i find it hard to draw swelter in a way because the way he is described in the book is.........hmm. well it's wonderful in a#literary sense but it's also a bit uncomfortable because his character is very much defined by being Fat and Evil. both those things being#quite explicitly linked which is obviously not good so i wanted to draw him in a way which made less of a moral issue of him being fat#whilst not making him skinny or anything because that would be bad also. i dont think i succeeded though :-( i wanted to stick as close#as i could to the descriptions in the book but as i said the descriptions are pretty fatphobic so it was a challenge and i dont think i#navigated it very successfully........i'm not sure i explained what i mean very well there at all but hopefully it makes at least some sense#i love swelter. evil and delightful#all of them are delightful. i just love them!!! i love this book!!!!!!!!!!!! I Love This Book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#ooooooo you want to read titus groan you want to read it so bad ooooooooooooooooo
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