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November 01, 2006
Trophy Wife
I've been working on some illustrations for a piece that will be featured in the Washington College Magazine - my first illustrations for a work of fiction (matthew's gobbeldygook notwithstanding). Washington College has this great creative writing program, perhaps most notable for its wildly generous Sophie Kerr Award (and maybe some other important literary-type things, but the glitter of cash dollars is really what catches the eye), so there's lots of literary-ness running amok around here. The story that I am illustrating is the winner of a prize given to a junior for excellent writing in any field - this year's winner happened to be part of the WC lit mob. The story is aptly titled "The Trophy Wife" and is one of those self-aware-late-adolescent-discovering-the-dark-side-of-the-high-life-gatsbian-type deals, if I even have the literary know-how to describe it as such (don't, really). At any rate, I was given fairly free artistic reign (why, thank you!) and came up with the following:
After sketching them up and sending them over, I was called into the art director's office today, without much of an explanation as to what was up (I believe she said "so I can show you what we have in mind") which indicated to me that what they had in mind was entirely different from what I had in mind (so much for free artistic reign). It turns out, she just wanted to show me the pix in the layout, and it also so happens they'd like both. As mom would say, "Whippee!" So, since I've got them all comped up, I just have to complete finals before next wednesday. That is much more humane than I had previously thought.
In other news, I don't have class tonight (advising day) and matthew is out of town for the night (visiting pappa John who's in DC for a business meeting or something), which means that I should get some work done on the next Idiots'Book. Instead, I'm going to make dad fried tomatoes and maybe pass out from all the ingested grease. Right on.
Posted by ribbu at November 1, 2006 02:42 PM