The Sausage

I have another project to do alongside the Malcolm X one. I have to make a book cover for a short story. The story is called 'The Sausage' by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. I tried finding a link for it but couldnt, and I cant really be bothered. Anyway, basically the story is about a man who kills his wife and turns her into a sausage and then gets tried in a courtroom. The man is found guilty and he asks if he is allowed to eat the sausage as a last request, but it has sort of disappeared during the trial and it is alluded to that the judge has eaten it. Yeah, it's pretty shit. It doesn't seem very deserving of a book cover to me, and considering it is only about 500 words long. Anyway, it was either this one or pedo-jesus.

These are just a few quick sketches I did pondering the idea. I want to sort of incorporate the statue of justice- the blindfolded lady with the sword and scales. In my head the man on trial is really creepy, a total piece of work and skin and bone and just horrible. I think it has to look pretty sinister. So the whole idea that lady justice can't see and doesn't know what's going on would work really well with that.

The Rye times

So we went on a school trip to a place called Rye which is quite near Maidstone to do some drawing. We had to make three 'unconventional' postcards which depict Rye. This is what Rye looks like:

Rye reminded me of my hometown in Gloucester A LOT. Dursley is pretty much the same; populated almost exclusively by octogenerians, with shops which proudly exhibit it's finest assets, i.e. about sixty-three oxfams. Needless to say, it was a little dull. Here are some of the interesting things I found:

A rather nice looking cheese shop.

An awesome antique rocking horse. I considered getting on it, but resisted.

This guy. We hit it off, but I told him I wasn't into dating right now.

So these are the postcards I made: