#fantine art

[pilferingapples]

a steal for Fantine/Simplice for the @lesmisshippingshowdown!

Not a lot to say about this one, I had a sudden urge to draw chibis and how much Cute art do these two get? How much ANY art? Let's make them some more! The blue flowers behind Fantine there are supposed to be Cornflowers, which are in the song she sings to an imagined Cosette. Did you know: cornflowers are really fiddly to draw? SCIENCE FACTS :P

...maybe that gives me an idea...

[mithykster]

As promised, a happy Fantine with dearest darlingest Cosette. I tried to draw from the description of Fantine in the book. Aspects I mainly considered were a beautiful, but perhaps timid face. Hugo also describes her hair like:

"Her thick blond hair, which was inclined to wave, and which easily uncoiled, and which it was necessary to fasten up incessantly, seemed made for the flight of Galatea under the willows" For this, I referenced the hair of perhaps the most famous 'Triumph of Galatea artwork" by Rafael. I thought perhaps Hugo could be drawing from this image since it is pretty famous and probably was so in his time as well. However, there exist a number of artworks of the flight of Galatea and this one very obviously does not show any willows... so perhaps I have been too quick to try and draw it from any art historical piece and it could just be the general imagery of a woman with lucious locks that Hugo tried to provoke. Nevertheless, enjoy my own art historical reference then. (Also, from my very surface-research (looking at google images) I feel all artists seem to generally kind of reference Rafael, which is not very surprising considering how much everyone loves the classics.) Other things I tried to show were Fantine's curled yet reluctant smile. And I remember one passage mentioning she had a hat with white ribbon, but preferred to carry it in her hand instead. We wish she could have lived her life with Cosette like this. There is at the same time much and little to discuss about the women in Les Miserables. I feel when I shall restart the book from beginning to end i'll pay even more attention to the female characters, because I think you could probably make a very interesting feminist observation about the book. I have seen some people mention Hugo is a little misogynistic in his representation (which of course... the time spirit.) but I am not sure if i necessarily agree. There are some really interesting points to be made and lowkey, if I have time perhaps i'll write an essay. Does anyone have some nice readings on the feminine within les Miserables? I'd be interested to see them :) I realize I have perhaps a bit too much to say

[sleazyjanet]

FANTINE!!!

[pilferingapples]

Week Two of the Fanwork Challenge, “kisses”!  ft Cosette and all her parents-- Fantine, Valjean(twice) , and Fauchelevent! (Top left clockwise: Teenage Cosette and Valjean; Convent -years Cosette and Fauchelevent; Valjean in his yellow coat carrying Cosette away from the Thenardiers;  Fantine in her work clothes carrying baby Cosette!)  (also taking care of “kissing the top of the head” and “kissing the brow” on my Touch Prompts list!:D )

[pilferingapples]

More fanart for @robertawickham‘s Less Miserables ‘verse, and more of me trying to draw kids (about which, whoo boy more under cut).

 this one springs from a conversation about how Thenardier actually kept the inn afloat  a long time past its reasonable fail-by date off of Fantine’s payments to care for Cosette (extortionnnnn) so maybe?? without that??  the Thenardiers move to Paris much earlier and Eponine and Azelma can meet Cosette when they’re all little kids and they can all grow up together as working-class kids with Fantine and her friends looking out for all the kids (and that means Gavroche and the momes too, when they come along) and EVERYONE CAN BE A KID AND PLAY SOME AND HAVE A CHANCE 

except this isn’t even like ...anywhere near the current timeline of that ‘verse?  This is like, speculative fanart of a fanfic?? Why.

 I don’t think I’ve ever done that before even if it IS just doodles

but I WANT THEM ALL TO BE HAPPY SO MUCH. 

I also want to draw them better! I had such a Challenge to post this instead of burying it in the Trash file, wow.  This is bad and wrong and what are proportions? , and I I am very much at the beginning phase of doodling these ages.  But I am POSTING ANYWAY , in  in Faith that at some point when I’ve got more practice I will be able to look back at this and feel pride over my progress , and not cringing horror at my early incompetence. Goals!