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| A scene from the animated film, Coraline. Laika |
I’ve noticed that a lot of movie characters tend to look a bit different from their novel counterparts. This is due to the fact that the television versions need to look appealing to the eye in order to draw in viewers, but it is always interesting to see what artists interpret the character’s appearance as based on their original descriptions.
I may not be the best at human art, but I wanted a crack at it and set to work reading the ebook version of the novel, Coraline, to look for any clues as to what she looked like. Despite the entire book being in third person, I managed to only find three sentences that described Coraline’s physical appearance, one of them just described her outfit while she explored outside, so I had to get creative to look for more clues.
Looking at different versions of the book cover, I assumed it was safe to say that Coraline had short hair, around shoulder length. I felt I could also assume that her hair was dark since her mother had black hair. I gave her dark blackish-brown hair.
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| Sketch part 1 Lizeth Tello |
For her outfit, the novel states that she wore a “blue coat with a hood, a red scarf and yellow Wellington boots.” As for her body structure, her shadow was described as “a thin, giant woman” on around page nine, meaning she was probably thin.
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| Sketch part 2 Lizeth Tello |
The last and final thing I could find was a quick mention on page 44 of her eyes, which stated “her big black eyes stared into Coraline’s hazel eyes. With that last detail, my colored sketch was finished.
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| Colored sketch Lizeth Tello |
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