This is my informal archive. As an English student, I am expected to read at least once every day. Since this project is about drawing every day, I decided to combine the two subjects and draw a moment from some of the thing I've read. The books I've read from are the following: The Broadview Anthology for British Literature, The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Dracula by Bram Stoker, The Wastelands by Stephen King, and The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. If you're considering reading any of these books, consider this a minor spoiler warning.
Below is a picture of the books I read from.
October 2, Pearl by the Pearl Poet (Broadview), A text from the medieval period, I've drawn the maiden from that text when the narrator falls asleep and sees her in his dream.
October 3, The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline, A young adult novel following a group of indigenous survivors in a post-apocalyptic world. Wab is one of the characters I've decided to draw.
October 4, Bisclavret by Marie de France (Broadview), A lai from Anglo-Saxon France about a baron who turns into a werewolf.
October 5, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Broadview), A medieval tale about a knight who must complete a challenge invoked by a supernatural "Green Knight".
October 6, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Broadview), I failed to mention in my synopsis that the Green Knight loses his head in the process, but still lives.
October 7, Dracula by Bram Stoker, this depicts the moment that Renfield meets Van Helsing in an asylum, under supervision from Doctor Seward in the background.
October 8, The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline, RiRi, one of the survivors, finds a shiny pair of rainboots that she really likes.
October 9, The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline, this drawing is a flashback to the moment when Miig, one of the characters, finds the remains of someone who he thinks is his husband.
October 10, 2024, The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline. I've probably butchered First Nations' culture by drawing this, but this is a moment when the main character sees Miig singing.
October 11, 2124, The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline. Dance scene at the camp.
October 12, The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline. In this chapter, the main characters crash a van in order to rescue a member of their group.
October 13, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. A moment in the prologue where the narrator beats a man who bumped into him and called him a slur. I tried my best not to include a face for the narrator.
October 14, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. This is after a battle royale and the narrator accepts a letter of enrollment to the nearest all-Black community college. I know I didn't want to draw the narrator's face, but there was lots of emphasis on violence in the chapter and I wanted to portray bruises and drool on his face.
October 15, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. The narrator drives for visiting trustee, Mr. Norton.
October 16, Dracula by Bram Stoker. This is a moment when the main characters investigate a house that they believe that Dracula's hiding in.
October 17, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. The aftermath of Trueblood's night. The less said about that, the better.
October 18, Dracula by Bram Stoker. During the investigation of the house, Van Helsing and company open a door only to be confronted by a colony of rats that spring out at them.
October 19, The Stanzaic Morte D'Arthur (Broadview). There were a few moments in Morte D'Arthur but, while I read, the mental image of Merlin advising Arthur stuck with me the most.
October 20, The Wastelands by Stephen King. At this point in the story, there's a description of Jake's dad, a powerful executive smoking a cigar and sitting behind a desk.
October 21, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. This chapter had a description of the University choir that I decided to draw.
October 22, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. In this chapter, the narrator meets with Dr. Bledsoe, who keeps an ankle shackle on his desk as a reminder of his past. The meeting doesn't go well.
October 23, Dracula by Bram Stoker. In this journal entry, we are provided a second-hand account of Dracula moving into one of his estates. The man who talks about Dracula describes a fellow with a white mustache who lifted boxes with no effort.
October 24, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. At this point in the novel, the narrator is living in Harlem with a kind woman named Mary. In this chapter, the narrator describes the smell of cooking cabbage, a cheap meal that had been served several times previously. This prompts him to take up work with the mysterious Brotherhood, who had offered him a job previously.
October 25, Dracula by Bram Stoker. Here, Dracula visits Mina in the middle of the night and forces her to drink his blood.
October 26, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. Here, Badger, Rat, and Mole have placed Toad under house arrest in order to keep him from recklessly buying a car, but Toad's mind is on automobiles. The book describes Toad going into withdrawal, taking some of his chairs, sitting on them weirdly and pretending that he's driving a car. It's a small absurd detail that makes me love this book.
October 27, The Wastelands by Stephen King. One of the characters, Jake, comes to an intersection in the middle of the city. Everything changes for him from this moment on.
October 28, Confessio Amantis, Book 5 by John Gower (Broadview). This story is basically a retelling of Jason's voyage, so I decided to draw the Argo in the middle of a turbulent sea.
October 29, Dracula by Bram Stoker. I didn't read as much on this day. All I could recall from the passage that I
did read was a nineteenth-century horse-drawn cab.
October 30, A Revelation of Love by Julian of Norwich (Broadview). This one was written by an anchoress, which was basically someone who, in the Middle ages, self isolated and used drugs to induce religious vision. "A Revelation of Love" was Julian of Norwich's way of documenting one of her visions. In one moment, she holds something the size of a hazelnut in the palm of her hand, only to learn what it is: it's everything! (In the World? Country? Universe? It's very relative but I like the idea.)
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