Storyboard Reviews

I enjoy reading fiction, a good drama with strong characters and biographies of illustrators. I also like to draw and I draw something every day when possible.  The usual question arose, what would I draw?  As my main interest is narrative I began to draw a short synopsis, review of books I had read.

During lockdown I did quite a lot of walking and listening to audio books.  During that time, about a year I read and listened to over seventy books.  Now I don’t listen to a book on my walk and  prefer to look at the surroundings and enjoy my thoughts.  I tended to forget the characters and/ or plot of some books  so I wrote a quick review as I moved on from one book to the next.  This was when I added a sketch to the written review, synopsis of the story.  I then chose short stories. The drawings are primitive , misshapen, often quirky, created mainly from my imagination.  A problem arose, I couldn’t take these storyboards any further because of the copyright laws.  So I decided that I could publish these as a blog without a text.. So here are  examples of my reviews visually. By drawing every day I am hoping that my drawing and visual memory improve.  If I overstep the copyright law I apologise, it is unintentional and please let me know.

The final pages are coming soon.  A clue to the story is – a secret affair.

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Here is another storyboard, by Somerset Maughn, again his books are inside copyright so these early day drawings can go no further.  I just enjoy drawing daily and using words, nattative as the starting point.  I’m also going to start illustrating my own stories and take the storyboards onto the next stage.