Art: The Merry Wives of Windsor

[honorat]

by Honorat
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Didn't take the photograph used for reference. Not making any money.

Summary: More Art! Mistress Paige and Mistress Ford discuss their revenge on Falstaff. From a performance of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.



Copyright 2004. All rights reserved.
8 1/2 x 11 inches, mechanical graphite pencil on printer paper.

Comments

[elessil.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous. I love how you did the fabric.

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. There was a surfeit of fabric in this picture! I got hung up for two years on the left ruff. I love your icon. If that doesn't describe fanart and fiction, I don't know what does! Makin' no profit! Awk! And a lovely picture of Jack D.

[elessil.livejournal.com]

The pic is from Mary Brant, and the pretty shiny icon by black_hound I fell in love with it instantly.

[cymbeline.livejournal.com]

Lovely! I like their expressions. If you don't mind my suggesting...it looks like the lady on screen right could use a little shadow under her jawline to differentiate from her neck. Drawing two people in one space is hard, I've yet to tackle that one again!

[honorat.livejournal.com]

They do look up to mischief, don't they. You're right about the shadow. There was probably some funky stage light making that area look unnaturally light, but it would look better shadowed. I've been forcing myself to draw pictures with multiple characters because I kept having one turn out and the other be a disaster. That which does not kill us makes us stronger and all that!

[cymbeline.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Its hard to get both of them looking just right. I had a hard time with the Eowyn piece I did and most people thought it was a mother and daughter...not the same person LOL

[sparky-darky.livejournal.com]

Boy, does that play bring back bad memories ^^

But I love their expressions! You can see the mischief in their eyes... the fabric is wonderful-- you've managed to make the skirts appear to be made of silk, which is really tough. You've managed to fit two people into one space really well, without losing any sense of proportion or detail. So well done! :D

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Ooh, do I sense a story?

This was a fun production of the play. The first time I tried to draw fabric while actually looking at it, I was surprised at how easy it was for me. I think it was because I'd never tried it at all, so I had no preconceived notions to unlearn. The woman on the viewers' left had an overskirt of net and lace which I wimped out on. Couldn't imagine how I'd do it at the time. I might give it a try now. I've been trying to put numerous characters in my pictures lately just for the practice.

Thank you for commenting.

[sparky-darky.livejournal.com]

Oh, no particular story. Merry Wives was our main study text this time last year, and I hated it, which I didn't expect at all. I love Shakespeare, and I'm always very enthusiastic about studying him, but this play just bored me, I'm afraid ^^ When I found out that Shakespeare possibly wrote this in around two weeks for Queen Elizabeth then I was able to forgive him. But yes, we studied it for about twelve to fourteen weeks, along with seeing a terrible production in a village hall (forgotten lines, characters forgetting cues... all of it).

The current year twelve are studying King Lear, and they insist on moaning about it. I feel like beating them with the 'Complete Works', to be honest-- King Lear is a wonderful play, imo, and infinitely better than Merry Wives... (Sorry, I should shut up now.)

From this picture, the production you saw looks many times better than the one I saw! And drawing lace sounds like a task and a half-- I can't blame you for copping out on it. Good luck, if you do attempt to draw it!

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Twelve + weeks of Merry Wives? Ouch. This is a play that really is done best as a farce. The production I saw was absolutely hilarious and irreverent. I'm sure the Bard would have approved. He's never seemed as stuffed-shirt to me as his scholars. King Lear is certainly a deeper, more thought provoking play--worthy of that many weeks of study.