An Accident At Lyme, a 2nd-order adaptation of PERSUASION
I posted last week about this project, turning my (late) mother's musical libretto adaptation of Persuasion into a graphic novel, and I finished inking the introductory page yesterday. I did this with traditional materials: ink (dip pen and brush) on Bristol board. The text was placed using Adobe Illustrator. I plan to color it in Photoshop. I used several of the images in Ackerman's Illustrated London for the theater references. I am happy with how it turned out. I start working on the actual libretto on the next page.
I've been wanting to do this for at least 10 years. I hadn't started on it because it's taken me this long to become confident enough in my drawing skills. I have to keep reminding myself that I was in no way ready to do this while she was still alive.
And I am inserting ammonite motifs into the work, because I found during my research that Lyme's beaches are literally covered with those fossils, and people were definitely discovering them during the Regency period. Plus I think they are really cool.