A tiny story maybe ?

I was just messing around with Illustrator, trying to understand how to use it…

Pen&Ink, watercolor, printed out picture of skyline.

loveeeeed wirrows poster, ever since i saw it i wanted to something like it. 

Cinestudio is a fantastic archive movie theater in Hartford, on the campus of Trinity College. The theater is located in the basement of the science building, and entering it is like going back in time. They show all the best current indie films, as well as old classics and reprints.  When I was in school, I volunteered tearing tickets there every Saturday night so I could watch the double feature for free. I don't know if I would have survived college without this place, and years later I still miss sitting up in the balcony and watching the curtain rise.

This is a lower quality version of the drawing. I used my camera rather than the scanner. At least you can see the whole thing! The joke comes from a line in the play about puppets not being able to be lewd because of not having any sex organs. Hence the kiltlifting.

[Puppet Leander.] Here, Cole, what fairest of fairs Was that fare, that thou landedst but now at Trig-stairs?

[Cokes.] What was that, fellow? Pray thee tell me, I scarce understand 'em.  

[Leatherhead.] Leander does ask, sir, what fairest of fairs Was the fare that he landed, but now, at Trig-stairs?  

[Puppet Cole.] It is lovely Hero.  

[Puppet Leander] Nero?  

[Puppet Cole] No, Hero.

Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, 1614

(Hundreds of years later, reinvented as Abbot and Costello's Who's on First?)

(copied the description from the narrower, but higher quality one resourced to this image)

I've been working on this piece for about a week. This is too large to fit on my scanner, so it's missing a lot of detail to the left and right. It's a donation for an art auction to a theatre company here called Vile Passeist who produce non-Shakespearean plays of the Elizabethan and Jacobean era. They're doing a production of a play called Bartholomew Fair.

It was quite the experience to work slowly on something. My stuff is usually intricate, but I still work on stuff in one or two sittings. This was probably about 15 hours all-told. It was also a little nerve-wracking to know that I couldn't correct any mistakes in Photoshop, and that it had to be good to be worthy of an art auction!

Well, I spent 7 hours on filming, 2 hours on editing. Everything was made of lace and paper and a bit of wire, shot with a Sony handycam for it's all I got. I'm sorry I couldn't do it base on paperlilies's illustration, since I suck at doing animation on computer. Anyway, I did my best. Hope you guys like it! x