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Katy, illustration student. Welcome to my blog! Prepare yourself for art, stories, and language things.
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Photoset reblogged from Dip that pen, Shake that speare
Some of the more famous mortal-coil-shuffling-offings from Shakespeare. I made some of these a while ago, but a couple are new.
Yes hello I made a blog just for Shakespeare arts. From now on this blog will be inspiration and funny things and occasionally, when I’m not slacking, my own art. For my dumb Shakespeare drawings, follow Dip that Pen, Shake that Speare!
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![Cymbeline: Posthumus Leonatus, page 13
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What ho, it’s Pisanio! Posthumus’s manservant (cast in this version as a young woman) comes to his rescue. In the script, it’s not Pisanio but two unnamed gentlemen who break up the fight. But I’ve changed that because a) I like Pisanio and b) I’ve had to cut the first Cloten scene where the two unnamed gentlemen talk with him about the fight that just happened. Pulling a gun on the queen’s son could presumably get Pisanio into a lot of trouble. I’m going to guess, though, that Cloten wouldn’t want to go tattling about this, because then he’d have to admit that he was bested by a teenage servant girl.
Oh also, if I may draw your attention to the last panel, I’ll show you a trick I’ve done. The play is supposed to be set in Britain, right? And yet, look at the direction the cars are facing as they drive. Which means GUESS WHAT you’re in my country now suckas! (Though of course the setting remains nominally in Britain.) I’m not doing this, I’m embarrassed to admit, for any terribly legitimate storytelling reasons; I simply have never been to Britain and feel completely unqualified to use it as a setting. Plus setting it in the U.S would certainly explain the abundance of guns, as well as have a more direct connection with film noir, which was for the most part an American phenomenon.
So, yeah, you now have my full permission to imagine the script spoken with American accents. (I for one like to think Posthumus Leonatus sounds like Gregory Peck, but to each his own.)
(Especially if his own…is Gregory Peck.)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8tilu0zFv1r93bm7o1_500.jpg)
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![Cymbeline: Posthumus Leonatus page 12
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(I worry about the legibility of this page. If you don’t get it, please do me a favor and let me know. )
Incidental consequences of changing the setting are popping up. In Shakespeare’s script, there’s only swords as weapons. Posthumus was never in any real danger, because even though Cloten attacked him, a sword is pretty harmless in the hands of a guy like that. But a gun’s a fairly democratic weapon, not reserved for an elite or dependent on skill—even in the hands of someone incompetent it’s still a significant threat. It sort of changes the balance of power here.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8i1iyVhAr1r93bm7o1_500.jpg)
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![Cymbeline: Posthumus Leonatus page 5
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Redid this damn page. Old one is here if you’re interested.
If you would like to play the Find The Recurring Motifs Game, may I suggest starting on this page with the Mirror Motif. It’s often used as a symbol for deception, both in this comic and some very notable scenes in American film noir. A lot of the aesthetic from this comic comes from films like these, is why I bring that up.
EDIT: opps I forgot to do the Queen’s hair in the first panel
EDIT EDIT: I don’t want that to give you the impression that I’m gonna go back and fix it anytime soon because I am so definitely not](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8tds0BNLq1r93bm7o1_500.jpg)
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![Cymbeline: Posthumus Leonatus page 11
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Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce Cloten, the queen’s son, Imogen’s sort-of-once-fiance, unprovoked attacker of exiles, owner of one of those unfortunate really thin 40s moustaches.
This fight scene brought to you by screenshots from Guy Ritchie’s Snatch, and by my obliging roommates Ellen and Emily who were more than willing to demonstrate the subtle art of collar-scruff-grabbing.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8530mcfvJ1r93bm7o1_500.jpg)
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![Cymbeline: Posthumus Leonatus page 10
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[[MORE]]Here’s where the this volume breaks off from the script (which continues with the royal family back in the palace) and starts to follow only Posthumus. It also switches to a different inking style, a dry-brushy, ink-blotty expressive style that I use for emotionally heightened or action scenes.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m852lkYJ5p1r93bm7o1_500.jpg)
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Cymbeline: Iachimo page 6
This page is a bit of a tease, as I don’t think I’ll be posting any more Iachimo pages here for the time being. But in very unsurprising turn of events, the villain is rapidly becoming my favorite character. So I took a break from working on Posthumus’s point of view to draw Iachimo’s.
You will have noticed with your Holmsean skills of observation that Philario is a lady. In fact all of the characters who care for and help Posthumus—Imogen, Pisanio, and Philario—are women. It’ll give a nice twist to later events, including this soliloquy by Posthumus, which for my money is one of the more beautiful misogynistic speeches in literature. (And no that was not ironic, I really do love that speech.) Originally I didn’t want to stress gender relations too much , but the more I work on this adaptation the more they seem to sneak toward center stage. So, if you’re interested, be sure to keep track of interactions between the sexes in both the text and the drawings. Also be on the lookout for Madonnas, they are significant.
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![Cymbeline: Posthumus Leonatus page 9
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So I may have this wrong, but I think when you bow like that the right arm goes in front. Unless you’re, I don’t know, showing off your new ring to the father of the woman you eloped with.
(All kissing/face touching/romantic affection references throughout the comic are brought to you by Disney movies. This one goes out to Anastasia and Demitri. )](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m85285yI5a1r93bm7o1_500.jpg)
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![Cymbeline: Posthumus Leonatus page 8
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Sometimes I write out the script by hand. Feels good, man. Originally everything was going to be hand-written, but I decided to use typed text to push it more toward illustrated screenplay and away from comic book dialogue.
8ggggv
I’m just gonna leave that there, it’s a secret message from Emily’s destructo-cat who just jumped on my keyboard.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m851f0Bgth1r93bm7o1_500.jpg)
