Much Ado Kes and Wes

So continuing with the list of illustrations I promised... there was a version of Kes and Wes as Benedict and Beatrice from Much Ado About nothing.

So we are going Elizabethan here (the patter in the background is a typical pattern used for women dresses - even though it's very light it's there). He is wearing a leather jacket typical of soldiers.

The colors though are more typical of the theatrical costumes of the times so they are much brighter than normal clothing.

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Being Wes a Jew and Kes very fond of food... the line I chose is this one from Benedict:


Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in
to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that 'I took 1065
no more pains for those thanks than you took pains
to thank me.' that's as much as to say, Any pains
that I take for you is as easy as thanks. If I do
not take pity of her, I am a villain; if I do not
love her, I am a Jew. I will go get her picture.

(of course this is Act II, Scene 3)

This is all done with watercolor in more or less one and a half hour because I did not have much time to refine it.