I am of course referring to the jewel-like peacock I drew for my colleague Maxine’s Save The Date card (wedding invite to follow!) which was somehow, against massive odds, created in the flashy-blindy nauseablur of a migraine which was to settle in for the next eight hours and ruin my Hallowe’en. But, I am a professional and The Show, as you might suspect, Must Go On!
I do love doing personal work as you can play about a bit. I felt a bit extravagant with this type and I think you can see me flexing my life-long love of Mucha. I think he would be disappointed at my efforts - the work in his own painstakingly-rendered original drawings is absolutely breathtaking, and so careful - but one is allowed to aspire. Hopefully he would be kind to me in the way that a wise elder would treat a struggling but earnest child, crayons gripped in determined hands. Wax on, wax off.
The artwork is all drawn in ink and fine liner on an A3 sheet and of course the peacock, who will be making a dramatic comeback in the wedding invitations themselves, is my favourite bit. I was so ill I honestly cannot remember drawing it. But I do remember feeling the gritted teeth, thinking ‘I can’t let her down’, and finishing it, emailing a scan then immediately staggering upstairs to collapse while my long-awaited Hallowe’en happened without me!
Never mind. The job was done, to mine and the client’s total satisfaction, and the wedding will be awesome! I will follow up wight he wedding invitation design when it’s ready.
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