#classic broadcasting

[visualnoteslibrary]

What is this blog?

@visualnoteslibrary a.k.a. the illustrator's library is a project wherein I attempt to collect, organize and share all the physical/visual descriptions of characters in classic lit to provide reference to illustrate from! It started as a personal project, as I had been annotating my copy of The Count of Monte Cristo to save all of the quotations referencing characters' appearances to draw them and decided to digitize and share the notes and decided it would be fun to make it an ongoing project. The folder can be found here!

Current Titles

The Count of Monte Cristo

Dracula

Little Women

War and Peace

Les Misérables (work in progress, see this post for more information)

Les Misérables [Version Française] (see above; this version will be updated concurrently)

How is the information arranged/presented?

By character, then by chapter so you can easily find the quotes in context. I also sometimes add a column to easily track characters' ages where relevant/possible. Check out some titles above for examples!

Can you add this book?

For copy-pasting purposes I prefer to do books in the public domain, and I'd only do a book I'd already read, since it would otherwise be pretty spoiler-heavy. I also prioritize books written in English since it's my native language and I'm extremely opinionated about translations and can be skeptical of their accuracy (I hand-typed all the quotes from my favorite translation of War and Peace) but I definitely make exceptions. But please do request titles and if they fit the bill I'll try to get to them!

Do I need to credit you?

Not at all! I'm just pulling quotes from books I didn't write, so I could hardly demand credit. If you'd like to credit me in order to inform people about the project, it would be appreciated! I also love to be tagged (@visualnoteslibrary, #visualnoteslibrary or #visual notes library) so I can reblog your awesome art!!

You missed the part in [book] where it says that [character] is [description]!

Pleeeease tell me these things so I can fix them! I'll even add your URL, name, or whatever moniker you prefer to the bottom of the document and say how you helped.

[verticalplane]

redraw of this scene which was so powerful it had to be locked away in a nigerian storage room for over forty years

[the-bookworm-cafe]

[stone-cold-groove]

Tonight on ABC! Bat Girl - 1967.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

CBS Saturday Night Special Movie 5/9/81 Broadcast of The Exorcist (1973)

[norashelley]

Joan Blondell, 1935

[kingofthewilderwest]

btw twosetters there's an official B2TSM IG now

[fanboy-feminist]

One thing that does irk me about public radio is that there’s always a hard pivot from election coverage to classical music.

So, now that they’ve wrapped up their special coverage of the election, I’m just listening to Mahler symph 7 and refreshing Associated Press every 3 minutes like a crazy person.

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

…you have got to be kidding me

[mitchmrner]

watching the leafs broadcast but i might as well be watching the caps one considering all we’ve talked about is ovi

[astralcities]

always pisses me off when people write massive essays in the replies & then block me before i can read them... like come onnn invest in a diary or let me in

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

light/moderate spoilers for 3-MS but do you think jenny would have Done That if she and jeremy weren't on camera? because personally i don't

[radioiaci]

alastor when dance of the knights

[juergenklopp]

MARCH 18, 2023 – TREA TURNER hits a go-ahead grand slam in the top of the eighth inning during the 2023 World Baseball Classic quarterfinal game between Team USA and Team Venezuela, sending Team USA to the semifinals with a 9–7 win

[stone-cold-groove]

Tonight on NBC! The Monkees - 1966.

[ask-emma-the-cat]

Golden Oldies Vintage Radio Broadcast