Pip's house from the outside.
This is the shortest chapter in the book (more or less a page), so it's excusable to concentrate the picture on an inanimate object. It was interesting to figure out, what Pip's humble home could have looked like. In the book it is noted that they were very poor but also that they had multiple rooms, like a kitchen, a cellar, a parlour and bedrooms on the second storey. Also that the forgery was attached to the main building; hence, you can see on the right part of the frontside the main doors to the forge and the underlined inscription "FORGE". In front of the street a signpost is visible, which I designed after the emblem on the first ZELDA Boxart.
Mr. Pumblechook's horse and coach were also not trivial parts of the drawing. I had to increase the size of the horse's head in post production. I wasn't sure if in the winter someone put a coat on a horse if he staid for a very short time away. To my misfortune I decided to omit the horse coat, although later I found out that he explicitly uses such a device every time.
The sky and the scenery convey a very dismal atmosphere. The barren trees, the solitary restroom side-house and the two crows on the roof don't help to brighten the mood.
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