It’s Christmas at the Gargerys: Going clockwise from the figure at the very bottom:
Mrs. Gargery is raising her hand and giving a speech about how she brought Pip up
”from Hand”, the clergyman Mr. Wopsle throws in one or two declamations of poetic
pieces, Joe Gargery is giving Pip more gravy, Pip is situated at a very inconvenient spot
between Joe and Mr. Pumblechook and feels very uncomfortable, the guest of honour
Mr. Pumblechook, who is active in the corn-trade, is seated on a high-backed chair,
voluntarily pesters Pip with his elbow and heartily participates in the defaming of Pip
and finally Mrs. Hubble and Mr. Hubble, who are in the course of the story pretty much
less than two names thrown in.
The scene is situated in the kitchen of Pip’s home. In the background you can see
some culinary equipment and to the right of Joe the exhaust pipe of a chimney. The table
holds wine bottles, candles, dishes of various sorts and a plate of roast stuffed fowl.
I think in the book the table was meant to be rectangular, but I wished to draw a
circular one, hence being much more difficult to draw. At this time I wasn’t using a 3D
program with which one can draw exact circular objects in proportion to the camera
angle. I had to estimate the inclination and the size of the table. It isn’t that easy
situating six persons at a round table without drawing the table with an exaggerate diameter.
Some objects, like the glasses of wine I had to enlarge in post-production, because oth-
erwise they would have had the size of cocktail glasses.
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