This is how you fail a masters

[motetus]

What I should be doing: reading a PD-10 desalting column manual to work out how to use it before my protein precipitates out.

What I am doing: Reading about Rani Lakshmibai, researching Indian mural styles and trying to work out how to imitate it for a tiger-hunting scene, and wondering how on earth I could draw faces looking European but without being too out-of-place for the style and-

GODDAMMIT.

Comments

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Have you come across Pauline Baynes? A lot of her illustrations are somewhat in that style and might provide some ideas?

This is from her Arabian Nights, I think :
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1xFwDx_XQHE/Tgk2z5S2epI/AAAAAAAAD5M/RBI9JChIfb0/s1600/pbgem.jpg

and not sure about this one but it shows more european faces in that sort of spiky style :
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uc5-jjPby5I/Tgk20TQUVMI/AAAAAAAAD5c/t1VFPl2PRzk/s1600/pbhunt.jpg

[motetus.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thank you! Those are great - I love that demon in the first one. My parents house is covered with paintings like that (Indian mother, father who reasearches SE Asian history, you see) and those demons used to frighten me terribly as a child.