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Published: 2013-11-20 20:15:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 2274; Favourites: 51; Downloads: 0
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Lately, I've been doodling a lot of these little Les Mis characters. They're a lot of fun and very relaxing to draw, I doubt this will be the only set of these guys I'll post! I already have a list of people I want to draw next.Can you recognise everybody here? Maybe not, this is a bit Nordic countries heavy – and even though each of these drawings was inspired by a certain actor, creating perfect likenesses clearly wasn't my number one priority here... Here's a list, left to right and top to bottom (but feel free to guess before looking and let me know if you guessed anybody right):
Jean Valjean, Tero Harjunniemi, Tampereen Teatteri; Fantine, Thérèse Karlsson, Åbo Svenska Teater
Cosette, Leanne Dobinson, West End; Cosette, Sarah Nedergård, Tampereen Teatteri
Enjolras, Rune Sæter, Åbo Svenska Teater; Enjolras, Michael Maguire, TAC
Éponine, Rosalind James, 25th Ann. Tour; Grantaire, Glenn Daniel Nilsson, Malmö Opera
Stock used: kecky's magical brushes by ~Kecky
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Oh! I love Rosalind James as Eponine! I hardly ever see her anywhere though. She's my favorite Eponine, I think.
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I've never seen her in the role, but she has an amazing voice, so she certainly deserves some fanart!
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So cute! And I love the painting style, too. Since I have seen many of your drawings in pen, water color, and colored pencil, It looks a bit fresh to me!
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Thanks! It's fun experimenting with different styles a bit. I think the brush I used here looks a bit like oil pastels – so next, I guess I should learn to use the traditional irl oil pastels, then...
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I recognised every character except Grantaire (but I don't know the smaller characters that good anyway).
It's interesting to see how different the characters look like depending on the production. I prefer the left Cosette and the right Enjolras but you did great work with each of them.
I really like it and I would be happy to see more
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Haha, yeah, I'm sure the Grantaire here is nearly impossible to recognise – the Malmö Opera costume designs were really unique!
But thanks so much! 
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You're welcome.
I'm not quite sure, but isn't Grantaire usually portrayed with black or at least dark hair?
I thought he would be another design of Enjolras
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Malmö Grantaire had dark hair too, but he wore a blond wig over it. What makes it weird is that he took the blond wig off onstage sometimes! I guess it might be interpreted as Grantaire wanting to be like Enjolras but failing – if the production's Enjolras had been blonde. But since Enjy was brunette too, I really don't know what was the deal with that detail. It was just odd. Then again, the production was full of weird directional choices, so...
But yeah, I've never seen a blonde Grantaire, actually, unless you count the Malmö one – but I don't, since he wore the blonde wig only a part of the time. They all seem to be dark-haired!
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Okay, that sounds really weird 
Seems as if the director had some very special ideas 
That's good to know. It'll help me to recognise Grantaire better if he's always dark-haired
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Cute little Rune! You just can't have an other Enjolras...
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Thanks!
Yep, there can be only one... 
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ähähää nää kaikki on ihan ylisulosia, varsinkin molemmat cosetet on ihan ällösöpöjä::'O<3
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Haha, kiitos! Seuraavaan settiin pitää varmaan sisällyttää monta Thénardieria ja tehdä niistäkin oikein siirappisöpöjä!
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Aw, these are all adorable! I love this style. It works very well with the textured brush.
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Thanks! Yep, I'm a bit in love with that brush. It has a fun look that reminds me of oil pastels a bit. All the fun and none of the frustration and mess! (Or maybe I should just practice with the oil pastels more...)
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Yeah, it's a great brush. That's one of the reasons I enjoy digital art: no mess to clean up. 
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The blonde Cosette with the bow in her hair is so cute!
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Thanks! 
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Dear lord, your art is amazing! These are too cute :3
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OOOOoooh they all look so great! 
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Thanks!
Btw, didn't we discuss 1789 the musical with you a while ago? That discussion inspired me to order a bunch of French musical CDs, 1789 of course included, and they just arrived... Loving all of them so far!
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You're welcome! 
Yes we talked about 1789! My DVD haven't arrived yet... I'm so happy you like them! 1789 is the one I know better (and I don't even really know the ending
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Aw, hope you'll get the DVD soon! I bought, besides 1789, Mamma Mia! in French (I'm something of an ABBA fan – I now own MM! in four different languages...) and a musical about Robin Hood called Robin de Bois. I don't even remember how I found out that Robin de Bois even exists, but after listening to the sneak peeks in Amazon, I got really interested... And I was right, the songs are really nice, I recommend! 
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I hope to get it soon too, I can't wait to see it! (it will be a special day
I like Mamma Mia too, but I didn't knew there was a French cast! About Robin des Bois, I first saw it on Amazon when I was looking for 1789... have to take a look about it too!
Romeo et Juliette is nice... the costume design and the sets on the DVD production I own are not exactly Shakespeare-like, they have a sort of... a steampunk/gothic feeling that turns out very interesting!
But I think the best Romeo and Juliet version I've ever seen (the play, not the musical) was here in Portugal, on Sintra (I don't know if you've heard about the place) on a garden called Quinta da Regaleira that is from the romantic era, created to look like a gothic medieval fairytale forest (with the caves and balconys and everything). It was at late night and the performance was all over the garden and the several palaces on it, we were invited to follow the actors along little trails of candles on the floor to find the next stage and scene!
(but if you are afraid of getting lost in a forest only hearing the owls and the wind it might be a little scary
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Wow, that sounds pretty much like the perfect setting for Romeo and Juliet... Definitely a unique experience, I'm sure! I've never heard about any other production of any play done in a similar manner.
Heh, the getting afraid part reminds me of a guided tour at Turku castle, a medieval castly here in my home town... It was called Horror Tour and was held at night. Mostly, it was just spooky stories. But at one point, they had an executioner with a huge axe jump out of the shadows and scare the whole group. I screamed lots (right into the ear of a lady I did not know that happened to be standing next to me...) and was pretty terrified of dark a few weeks afterwards – so I think after that, seeing theatre in a forest would just be relaxing!
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Well yes, it wasn't that scary! I would have screamed a lot too!
You can see the garden here, but it looks totally different in the night: www.google.pt/search?hl=pt-PT&…
(wow, what a huge link. Sorry!)
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Aeerrgh, the photos – what a gorgeous place!! I would really love to visit one day!
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If you ever come to Lisbon I really recommend you to visit Sintra... it's very close (like 30 minutes driving) and you can see this garden and other beautiful places there!
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