Z is for Zaphod Beeblebrox
My last Alphabooks entry is Zaphod Beeblebrox from the science fiction story “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams.
And that concludes my 26 letter journey in the Alphabooks project. It has been a fun and enriching experience and I got to know a lot of book characters I didn’t know before, and of course it was an excellent drawing training for me.
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Y is for Yossarian
My Alphabooks entry for this week is Yossarian, the protagonist of Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22.
X is for Xavier Desmond
My Alphabooks entry for this week is Xavier Desmond from the Wild Cards series of books created by a group of New Mexico science fiction authors, and mostly edited by George R. R. Martin.
W is for Wicked Witch of the West
My Alphabooks entry for this week is the Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum’s children’s book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
V is for Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
My Alphabooks entry for this week is the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, the main antagonist from the novel Dune by Frank Herbert.
U is for Úrsula Iguarán
My Alphabooks entry for this week is Úrsula Iguarán, from the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
Úrsula Iguarán is without question the most important female character in the novel, the matriarch of the Buendía family. She is described as a small, active, severe countrywoman and she lives over 120 years old.
I chose to paint her in her later years when she was senile and blind, but never lost her spirit.
T is for Tintin
My Alphabooks entry for this week is Tintin, the protagonist of the the classic Belgian comic book series, “The Adventures of Tintin” written and illustrated by Hergé (Georges Remi).
S is for Sancho Panza
My Alphabooks entry for this week is Sancho Panza with is donkey Rucio, a character from the novel “El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha” (“The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha”) by Miguel de Cervantes. Sancho is Don Quixote’s faithful companion and squire throughout the the novel.
R is for Rumpelstiltskin
My Alphabooks entry for this week is Rumpelstiltskin, the antagonist of a fairy tale originated in Germany, collected by the Brothers Grimm, who published it in the 1812 edition of Children’s and Household Tales
Q is for Quasimodo
My Alphabooks entry for this week is Quasimodo, the deformed hunchback bell-ringer of Notre Dame and a character in the novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) by Victor Hugo.
