The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

Sketchbook, sketchbook

With the Circus project handed in, it's now time for the Final Major Project! I'm rather excited about this, since I chose to do some costume design based on a book written by one of my favourite musicians - Emilie Autumn's The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls.



On a whim, I decided to make my sketchbook look appropriately fancy. I've got all sorts of stuff to go in there. I've never really bothered with making sketchbooks look interesting, but my last one looked so much better with a little bit of red and brown paper thrown about.

Really looking forward to this project. EA has quite a distinct style, and it'd be quite interesting to replicate that in the setting of the book.

Culled directly from EA's real-life diary entries, the story begins with Emilie's suicide attempt and prompt imprisonment inside a psychiatric hospital. Sparing no detail, Emilie shows us exactly what goes on inside this house of horrors, exposing secrets that the general public could never have guessed at. Narrated with the sarcastic and self-deprecating humor present in all of EA's works, much of the subject matter may be considered controversial. Still, as in her song lyrics, Emilie tells the truth at all costs, thrusting the brave reader into a play-by-play narrative of her bi-polar episodes, even providing photos -- blood, cuts, and all.
The tale takes an unexpected turn when, whilst still in the psych ward, Emilie discovers evidence of a parallel dimension -- a world that soon becomes indiscernible from her own. As the days go by, the seemingly disparate worlds of the story's two lead characters (Emilie and Emily, EA's Victorian counterpart) begin to merge, leaving the reader, as well as the book's author, rather confused as to whether the accounts are truly autobiographical or whether EA has managed to seamlessly morph from true-life tale to extremely well-researched historical fiction. - mamstore.co.uk