Pip (far right) is done playing beggar-my-neighbour with Estella (far left) and asks Miss
Havisham if he could go home.
In this picture I tried some new things. First and foremost in the department of ar-
chitecture. I modeled for the rst time a room with a 3D rendering software. Finally I
could draw a room in the correct proportions, draw table and chairs and furniture in the
correct scales. Furthermore I drew to sketches for this picture, one with people in it and
one only with the composition of the room. From this point on I tried to realize an idea
of mine called "n+1" actors, which stands for n human characters and the one room
they stand in. In other words, I try to emphasize the role of the room by not putting
all the persons in the foreground and neglecting the room, by e.g. dark surroundings or
fanciless walls. This idea will be especially very dominant in the second part of Great
Expectations.
I also left the technique behind of lling whole areas in pitch black, which was very
dominant in Chapter II, IV and VII. Now I made sure to leave enough white space
between black lines, so to achieve a grayscale effect.
The room they stand in is the dressing room of Miss Havisham. She is dressed in
her worn out wedding dress, holds one shoe in her hand, and is situated in front of a big
mirror, which in this picture is heavily lit by candles. All windows are bolted and don't
permit sunlight to enter her room. Miss Havisham recounts not having seen sunlight for
years.
Estella looks scornfully at Pip after she had thrown her cards on the
oor. She hates
Pip because of his being "common". However, later in the book, when she grows older,
she seems to value him with a sort of detached disinterestedness.
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