Improving the classics

[alias_sqbr]

Talking with nico_wolfwood I was inspired to illustrate a scene from Pride and Predjudice using the same steampunk setting as this picture. Now I've gotten Darcy and Lizzie in the picture I feel more satisfied the prompt is complete.

Of course now I'm going to imagine Anne that way every time I read them book :) Drawing the first picture got me thinking bout her role in the book and what her future might hold, and while I was looking for reference pics I found proof that I'm not the only one :)

Airship from here, aren't they cool?

Comments

[pedanther]

Oh! That's Anne?

When I saw the first picture, I interpreted it as, what you said, a speculation about what Anne's future might hold: all grown up, and past grown up, and her mother still hanging around to manage her life for her...


(Yes, the airships are indeed cool.)

[alias_sqbr]

Well, the second picture doesn't contradict that, it just implies that Lady Catherine still thinks of her as a person :)

[pedanther]

What I mean is, when I saw the first picture, I thought that the brain-inna-jar was Lady Catherine, refusing to take death lying down. I realised that the old lady's grumpy expression was out of character for Anne, but it looked to me like it was directed at the jar, so I interpreted it as "I thought I was finally out from under your thumb, but no..."

[alias_sqbr]

Ohhhhhh.

Heh, you know I like that interpretation. No reason the picture can't be seen more than one way :)

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

[alias_sqbr]

Thanks!

[lizbyrd.livejournal.com]

This picture makes me giggle so much. I particularly love the scarf around Anne's base.

And after this post I went and reread most of Pride and Prejudice, so that was good too. (I did keep imagining Miss de Bourgh as a brain in a jar, however.)

[alias_sqbr]

Yay! I'm glad you like it.

I did keep imagining Miss de Bourgh as a brain in a jar, however

Haha, awesome, my work is done :D

[nico-wolfwood.livejournal.com]

oh, that's perfect! The look on Colonel Fitzwilliam's face! Darcy looks vaguely embarrassed by his Aunt actually...

[alias_sqbr]

Thanks! Yes, I was trying for a repressed mixture of annoyance, embarrassment, and worry :)