A few of my literature-inspired drawings
The Odyssey, Homer
The Threshold
“Odysseus approached and stepped inside… [he] slumped himself
The Odyssey, Homer
down on the ash-wood threshold, leaning back against the cypress doorpost, which a workman had smoothed and straightened long ago.”
Translated by Emily Wilson
A doorway is our only access to the world, but it is also our shelter from it; it is where our journeys begin, but it is also where they end. I think there is beauty and mystery in what can come in and out of a door; there is magic in the fact that every time we enter or leave, new opportunities arise and new experiences are lived. In this drawing, I wanted to capture the subtle yet mighty meaning of a threshold; the doorway I drew here symbolises every feat Odysseus conquered, every defeat he suffered — each one a step in his quest towards home.
Don Quijote, Miguel de Cervantes
Hidden Poetry
Beowulf
The Dragon
Beowulf
The Dagger
The words on the dagger’s blade are Old English runes for A Lasting Legacy. I believe these words would be perfectly inscribed in Beowulf’s weapons, as for the hero your name — the honorable legacy you leave behind — is the most important value.
Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy
Music’s Power
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
Nature’s Persistence
The metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
Music’s Nourishment
In this drawing, I wanted to portray the most impressive part of The Kreutzer Sonata for me, which is the description of the power music has on our protagonist, Pózdnyshev —the confusion of his own feelings, the difficulty he experiences in trying to reject them, and the suffering they cause him. I especially wanted to convey how the music, this sonata in particular, weighs tremendously on him.
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
Man’s Resilience
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
Hidden Poetry
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Dorothea & Will