Drawing II and III

[onlyforthedream]

I'm holding the first class in the gallery, at Anthony Blunt's leave. The room is airy and more than large enough for the number of students who signed up. Some of the faces are more familiar than others, though I'm starting to recognize most of the island's inhabitants on sight, even if we haven't been introduced. There are chairs set out with

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[curiously_cora]

Coraline did a quick sketch of Jason, simple and basic. Her form was good, her drawing was gppd but it had no heart. Coraline abandoned it at the corner of her table, pulling her sketchbook to her as she drew how she saw Jason. The dark shadows, the light on his face, the very essence of Jason but Coraline was still unhappy with it.

"Ugh," Coraline said scrunching the good drawing into a ball and throwing it across the table as she redrew him this time with words in the shape of Jason's form. The darkness opressive on the page but at the center of it it all one word in bright vivid yellow. Strength. Coraline mmm'd happier with the piece now it reflected more of her own style.

[prodigaljaybird]

Standing long enough to stretch his legs, Jason picks up a wad of paper in the aisle between their desks. He unfolds it, and, to his surprise, discovers a sketch of someone that could easily be him.

"Hey," he says, following its obvious trajectory back to Coraline's desk. "You're pretty good." Grinning, he leans over to see her current work. "Now what are you doing?"

[curiously_cora]

Coraline looked up, pulling the paper close to her trying to hide it out of sight. It wasn't finished yet, it wasn't right.

"I guess so," Coraline said, looking up at Jason and pulling her current piece to her chest and bending it to hide it from him. It wasn't that it was private or she was embarassed but it wasn't right yet. It wasn't everything it could be. "That belongs in the bin. I'm trying to draw you but it's not right. It's how I see you, not how you look."

Coraline held it out. The words formed the shape of Jason on the page. "It's not right though, it's not finished."

[prodigaljaybird]

"That's me, too?" Reaching out as tentatively as she's offered it, Jason takes the page. Strength. Jason's smile brightens - he prides himself on that, his strength, and the boy he still is puffs up a bit. "I like it, it's different...what words would you be?"

[curiously_cora]

"Ahuh," Coraline said, looking at him worriedly as he took the page. Her face got more crinkly, more worried as she waited for him to deliver his judgement. "Mister Steve said to draw someone you can see clearly. That's- I could do that at home. I saw things as they were, with help I mean."

Coraline let out a breath when he smiled and she smiled back at him. Coraline considered what words she would be before she answered.

"I'd have the whole world at my feet. Bright blues and greens. And um curious, seeking, scared but brave those sorts of words." Coraline said sketching out what she meant in simple shapes. "But... grey here in my heart. Lonely."