NaArMaMo Day 5 - Self Portrait by Vila

[vilakins]

Today's entry for the naarmamo National Art Making Month challenge.

Self portrait by Vila

This is me (Vila Restal) on the mitey Liberator, chiz. You did not kno I cuold draw, did you? In the next few weeks I will do the luvly ha ha visages of BLAKE, that grate revolushinary and captain of the Lib and rebel 1st 15, AVON, rich as Cressus but a SWOT nuntheless, my grate freind GAN, and the gurls JENNA (jolly hocky sticks!) and CALLY [blush blush blush].

Drawing and text in the style of Ronald Searle and Geoffrey Willans' Molesworth books.
For sallymn. One in a planned series; sorry if you don't know the books.

My NaArMaMo Gallery is here.

Comments

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

BWEEEEEE!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You know the Molesworth books? I'm going to have Jenna as a St Trinian's old girl.

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Very very vaguely, but it's amusing nevertheless. And BWHAAAAAA as a St. Trinian's Jenna!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Did you every read Neil Faulkner's 'How to be Topp on the Liberator'? It was in the zine Star Four, and I keep hoping it'll turn up on the web as well...

The Molesworth books themselves, written by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle in (I think) the 1950s, are absolutely evil - and hysterical...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I have all four. And 'How to be Topp on the Liberator' was wonderful; I have that too. Travis's eyepatch! :-D

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

There's also a Molesworthian Harry Potter story (http://www.alice.dryden.co.uk/ho_for_hoggwarts.htm#voldemort) that is really rather good... not as good (moi? biased?) but fun.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have that bookmarked. I've read it several times. I want to reread my Molesworths now for the umpteenth time...

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Me too - I may take it to bed tonight :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

[wonders if she ought to buy an omnibus as her four separate books are getting a bit battered]

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Hee. Just looked again. Those are St Trinian's girls hanging off the Hogwarts Express. :-D

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I wish I still had a St Trinian's book.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Oh oh OHHHH!!! That's fabulous!!!

And for me? You shouldn't - no, on second thoughts you should have and thank you!!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

[bounce] I'm glad you like it!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Like it, I love it :) Our Heroes do fit with Molesworth startlingly well... and that's a lovely picture.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

And I thought I'd lost my knack! I used to draw them a lot at high school, in the backs of my exercise books. A couple of teachers told me that they looked forward to marking my work so they could see them. :-P I enjoyed doing murderous Romans too. Do you remember Molesworth's parts of speech? Nervous little pronouns being hounded by gerunds? Bwahahaha!

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Marvellous. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :-D

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

Just looked at my copy of the books (an omnibus edition) and Searle says in the intro that he went into illustrating Molesworth to escape St Trinian's as he felt he'd done everything he wanted with them.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the St Trinian's books since high school, but I'd love to get my hands on them again.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Wonderful. Priceless.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

:-D You know Ronald Searle and Molesworth? I didn't think they'd translate well to the US.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

I only know Molesworth from Neil's posts to the Lyst, but I grasp the basics. I do think I may have seen the artist before; the style is very familiar.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

He did the St Trinian's books, and lots of standalone cartoons.

[kerr-avon.livejournal.com]

*giggle* That's so cute! I particularly love that nostril-style. I am so looking forward to seeing the rest of the crew.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

When I've done them, I might put them up on a single page on my site. :-)

[spacefall.livejournal.com]

*sporfle* Just read the text, heh.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

:-D I don't think I've got Molesworth's misspellings quite right yet.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Much smirking. Looking forward to the rest.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I might do Blake tonight!