Story, Ideas, Inspiration..

 I dont want to give too much away about the story at this point but Ill tell you who my main characters are.

Catherine - Main Protagonist
This story will be based around Catherines experiences although I plan to write in 3rd person most of the time we will be with Catherine. For the prologue I plan to write in 1st person as Catherine.

Princess Katherine - Second Protagonist
She is the second most important character but is vital to the main storyline.


Prince Edward
He is Princess Katherine's younger brother.


Florence 
She is the Princesses maid. Her character is also of great importance to the main storyline.


Calvin
He is the Castle's main horseman and Florence's brother also I vital character to the main storyline

Lucian
Im not saying anything about this one you'll have to find out in the story be he's a really important character.

King John and Queen Henrietta
Princess Katherine's parents.

More characters to be added. stay tuned.


Ive been looking at various Images to inspire me and to use for reference. As my story is set in a sort of Victorian era Ive been looking at alot of Victorian style gothic clothes for my characters this is some of the stuff Ive found!

Female clothing

Idea for corset design

This is Florence's maid dress

Inspiration for Katherine's dress

Idea for corset design

Inspiration for Katherine's dress

Inspiration for Katherine's dress

Female accessories

I really love these I want some for myself.

Inspriration for Catherine's choker

Inspiration for Princess Katherine's choker

Inspiration for Princess Katherine's ring

Ive also been looking at Victorian style hair styles

Inspiration for Priness Katherine's hair

May use to create Catherine's hair

may use elements for Catherine's hair

Male clothing

love the ruffled colar

Sophisticated

In my next post Ill be sharing my locations for my story.

Its been a while

Ive gotten real lazy these days to update my blog I dont know why but Ive forced myself to write this post because I have to organize myself!

MAJOR PROJECT

For my major project I want to create a book, with the story written and Illustrated by myself and the Illustrations done traditionally combined with digital as I have always wanted to create images mixing the two different mediums together, both mediums combined will create an interesting effect with my illustrations. My plan is to create an Illustrated gothic style fantasy novel for an audience that are older Children and teenagers possibly even young adults as I feel that the theme of my story will be suited to that audience.

Prior to this project I have been inspired by artists and Illustrators Victoria Frances and Selina Fenech. Who both write and illustrate their own books Victoria Frances’ short stories “Favole” and Selina Fenech’s latest novel “Memory’s wake”. I have been greatly inspired by their very detailed Illustrations which are very lifelike as well as having an Illustrative element to them; their drawings are full of emotion and have a Gothic dark edge to them.

Here's a few examples of Victoria Frances' work you can visit her website here

Below is some of the artwork from her most recent book Integral Favole

Im a big fan of her artwork and her artwork is an inspiration for this project.

Here is some of Selina Fenech's artwork for her lastest book Memory's wake you can visit her website here

Book cover

Illustration from book

I have chosen to write and illustrate a fantasy novel is because it is what really interests me with this genre I can be as creative as I want to be and make things up. There are no reality barriers because its fantasy, it’s full of magic and things that are not possible in our world can be in a fantasy world. I just want the readers of my book to be really pulled into the story to be part of it as well as enjoying the illustrations at the same time. That is what I love about reading fantasy novels forgetting the real world and life’s problems and being whisked away from reality into a whole other world.