Doll Divine
Aug. 18th, 2012 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellenkushnerSo I come into Delia's study to find her dressing up this Tudor chick.
The conversation, had you been overhead to overhear, was something like this:
--Oh! Oh! Oh! I want hanging sleeves!
-- No, they look like this, see? (click) The problem is, I know how it actually should be [historically].
-- Oh. Right.
-- And you can change scenes, see?
--- Ooo! Ooo!! You can put her in the Tower.....
--- (Click) With a floating monkey.
-- A floating rat.
-- It's a monkey. (Click) And you can give her friends....
-- She doesn't want friends.
-- Yeah, yeah, I know; she's got a monkey.
Still confused?
OK, I just gave it a go: Decided to see how close I could get to Jessica Campion. Age, about 22. Home on leave, and Katherine must have commissioned a portrait - and Jess must have wanted something from Katherine and therefore agreed to sit for it. But in the Riverside House.
And now you see why I don't describe the clothing in my books! I'm not that visual: I know what the effect should be, but I'm not great on colors or exact cuts of anything. So please don't hold me to any of this, or even think this is how I really picture it!!!!! It was just a little fun play: Given what the program offered me, I kept clicking on stuff, pausing to ask my Inner Jessica, "Would you be willing to wear this? ....OK, well, howbout this, then?"
It is, like my books, a mishmash of periods. And I think she looks pretty good!
Ohhh, god - now I wanna do the Black Rose. In that famous portrait of her as The Empress. Must.....Resist.........
The conversation, had you been overhead to overhear, was something like this:
--Oh! Oh! Oh! I want hanging sleeves!
-- No, they look like this, see? (click) The problem is, I know how it actually should be [historically].
-- Oh. Right.
-- And you can change scenes, see?
--- Ooo! Ooo!! You can put her in the Tower.....
--- (Click) With a floating monkey.
-- A floating rat.
-- It's a monkey. (Click) And you can give her friends....
-- She doesn't want friends.
-- Yeah, yeah, I know; she's got a monkey.
Still confused?
OK, I just gave it a go: Decided to see how close I could get to Jessica Campion. Age, about 22. Home on leave, and Katherine must have commissioned a portrait - and Jess must have wanted something from Katherine and therefore agreed to sit for it. But in the Riverside House.
And now you see why I don't describe the clothing in my books! I'm not that visual: I know what the effect should be, but I'm not great on colors or exact cuts of anything. So please don't hold me to any of this, or even think this is how I really picture it!!!!! It was just a little fun play: Given what the program offered me, I kept clicking on stuff, pausing to ask my Inner Jessica, "Would you be willing to wear this? ....OK, well, howbout this, then?"
It is, like my books, a mishmash of periods. And I think she looks pretty good!
Ohhh, god - now I wanna do the Black Rose. In that famous portrait of her as The Empress. Must.....Resist.........