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John Childermass, Mr. Norrell's ... valet? A mysterious character (I have my suspicions, because irony is too sweet...) and, I think, my favourite. He's more independent than anyone else in the book, as everyone besides him is a slave to what they are supposed to be, be it gentleman, magician, wife, politician, whatever. They are all bound by duty and expectation but Childermass is Childermass and no one says boo. I nearly thought he was going to succumb to the usually fatal Tealin's Favourite Character Syndrome (they always die!) but he seemed to survive that ... unfortunately he still has to make it through the remaining 300 pages I have yet to read.
This design seems influenced largely by Ubiquitouspitt's Tony Chattin (a character I know only through her drawings) but also by the illustrations in the book, and the close shot of his head looks suspiciously like the drawing of Angua I did not too long ago. It's odd, having a character who refuses to come out of my pencil again. Lately it's been unfairly easy .. I've started to wonder. Looks like things are back to normal. Hah, and he looks like all my other long-faced men. Things are definitely back to normal.
Junior Postman Groat ... I have finally figured out that the person he reminds me of is the little old guy who throws off the Emperor's Groove. The physical description is pretty different but acting style would be the same. They're the same sort of character. For that matter, Moist, when he's angry, has a physical acting style very much like Ian Holm (Bilbo) in Fellowship of the Ring.
Carrot and Angua go undercover in Jingo. Carrot uses his Vegetable Frippery Disguise. I'm not too happy with this drawing as a whole but dang it, I DREW it! Hah!! Take that, Reacher Gilt!
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And Childermass...love the clothes but you're right...he looks....vaguely like a cleaned up, better proportioned, less hookednosed version of your Snape.
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(Anonymous) 2005-06-13 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
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You draw costumes SO well. Probably due to a visit from the Costume Drawing Fairy. *glingle glingle*
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I need a costume book.
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Okay, I just looked it up on Barnes & Noble, and the hardcover is 800 pages (I'm assuming that includes table of contents, acknowledgements, etc.). And I found this, which brings me to further dislike Gregory Maguire:
'I'm so good. I never yawned. Perhaps the less enlightened mortals out there who like puply trash hard and fast will find this boring but those of us, such as myself, with superior intellect and enlightenment, can appreciate this book's intricacies.'
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It was one of the only musicals that I found better than the book, or at least with more sympathetic characters.
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"Oh, he's just decided to try that premise again," said I, and could not actually finish Wicked because it was boring.
Then I found a short story by him in The Green Man that was based on Jack and the Beanstalk. It was good because it was short. It was clever, as he sometimes is, but lovely and short. So I think that his style could work for humor, but not long, serious novels.
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I love Angua's expression.
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Incredible!
(Anonymous) 2005-06-14 10:50 am (UTC)(link)Tealin. A lot.
He looks really cool, although I don't know who he is!
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great combination !
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