Storyboards & Books

As you know I am attending summer semester, and one of my classes is Don Quijote through Film, where for upper division Spanish credit the class watches various versions of Don Quijote and then writes a review and our impressions with a final project at the end of the semester.  Earlier this week I was drawing the storyboards that will be needed for the final project.  Each group will need to either film a scene (real or imagined) from Don Quijote or act one it out in front of the class during the last day.  My group has decided that it would be more entertaining if we act out our scene in class.

So one of the illustrations for the storyboard has Don Quijote being cared for by his niece.  My friend took one look at my drawing as proceeded to ask me "is that Jesus exercising the Devil?" and then she started to wonder "can Jesus exercise the Devil because he is the Devil?"  Oh what an interesting afternoon that turned out to be.  We never did decided on an answer.  However, I will always think of that conversation whenever I look at this storyboard.  Lets just say that it is a good thing I am not an art major; with the art skills I have, I would probably fail every class!  I am not being modest here... the only thing I can draw with any confidence is the facial profile of Marvin the Martin and that is only because I was asked by hundreds of children in Japan to draw my favorite cartoon character!

So I spent an afternoon in the library sketching and drawing the storyboards.  It seems ironic to me thinking back that one of the storyboards is of the scene in Don Quijote where his friends burn his books because they think the books are the source of his insanity.  I drew books being burned while sitting in the library.  It also reminded me of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury where books are burned, that is a great book!  For me, I love to read books (except for now I have no spare time to read) and one of my favorite things to do is curl up in the sunshine with a good book!  I wish I could show you this illustration, and maybe the other storyboards as well, but I had to turn them in this morning. 

~Adventures in Anything & Everything