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A really fast character portrait of Offred from The Handmaid's Tale. I drew the majority of it at Denny's, of all places.

I love this book. I can't even count how many times I've read it, and saying that I reread it once a year is a conservative estimate. It's incredible, and it's terrifying because it's feasible.

Not happy with the basket/arm/sleeve, but it's not getting fixed now.


Watercolor on WC paper, post editing in Photoshop, 2008
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~CLindstrom520 Apr 6, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Beautiful!! Love this! Reading the book right now and obsessed with it.
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~stupid-hoe Jun 25, 2012
I love the angelic expression on her face. The entire picture overall is gorgeous.
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~BridgetKirkland Apr 27, 2012
This is beautiful! I'm reading this book for the first time and it's the scariest thing I've ever read.
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~saxybandgeek Nov 17, 2011  Student General Artist
Thank you for a good visual on the outfit. I haven't even finished the book and yet I'm in love with it. And I don't mean to be rude, but don't they wear white gloves, not red? Just wondering.
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~pickwick Nov 20, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
=) I had to check, but nope, they're certainly red:

"I get up out of the chair, advance my feet into the sunlight, in their red shoes, flat-heeled to save the spine and not for dancing. The red gloves are lying on the bed. I pick them up, pull them onto my hands, finger by finger. Everything except the wings around my face is red: the color of blood, which defines us."
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~saxybandgeek Nov 22, 2011  Student General Artist
Okay. I checked a part of the book, just to double check for me, and they are red. Sorry.
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~Revolution-Nein Oct 21, 2011  Student General Artist
This is really a fantastic drawing. Her eyes are closed in such a way so that she almost looks as though she doesn't have eyes at all. That's creepy, but it's also effective. The look of the drawing also somewhat resembles old paintings (like Renaissance-ish style, not really, hopefully you get what I mean). Yeah. Great drawing.
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~nagisa2345 Feb 27, 2011  Hobbyist
This is exactly how I imagined the outfit. I read the whole book for english in less than a week and I was amazed at how confusing and demoralising the whole story is ... especially when the japanese tourists came by and they looked so normal compared to the handmaids old-fashioned attire
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~petiteframboise Nov 14, 2009
wonderful picture! this is very close to what i imagine her to be like... we've read a few chapters in our english class and i think i'm going to buy the book to read the rest. it's that awesome.
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~FreakyShadows Nov 11, 2009
gorgeous work, i just finished the book and i absolutely agree with it being so fantastic!
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