Hello everyone in the Steemit community! This week I was thinking about which books of Hispanic literature have been adapted to the cinema and I came to the conclusion that Don Quixote has never been taken to the big screen. I investigated and effectively confirmed my suspicions. The Gentleman of La Mancha has been adapted into plays, musicals and has been mimicked in television series only.
In all this Quixote situation, I wanted to contribute something to the most translated book of the Spanish language (after the bible) and I decided to make a fan-art of the character in digital and record the whole illustration process that I did; first in an artisanal way in my sketchbook and then in the digitized version. I hope you like the video!
Did you see the video of the process? In that case, great! This drawing below was from my sketch for the final artwork and right down I leave the illustration of Quixote without the background.
The ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha is the main literary exponent of the Spanish language and was written while the Spaniard, Miguel de Cervantes Savedraa, was in jail.
Despite his great influence on the literature and the success that caused, Cervantes didn’t get monetary rewards for the publication of his novel.
Although it seems unbelievable, nobody have been able to take it to the cinema.
There have been many attempts to adapt Don Quixote novel to the cinema, however this task has been impossible thing to do, there are those who say that the work is cursed.
This work changed the way of seeing the Spanish language and, according to many experts, revolutionized it
"Creativity is a drug I cannot live without".
Cecil B. Demille.
