Ok, so I want to try something, with some constraints. Below is a small passage of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Its describe one of the character, Tom Buchanan. Your challenge, if you accept it, is to design this character following the author's vision. The style & render is entirely yours to decide. Pay special attention to character traits, both visual or psychological.
The setting is in a rich suburb of New York, 1922. On the porch of a cheerful red-and-white georgian colonial house with bright vines. The time is a golden warm windy afternoon.
"...Tom Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch.
He had changed since his New Haven years. Now he was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward. Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body--he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing, and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat. It was a body capable of enormous leverage--a cruel body.
His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed. There was a touch of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked--and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts.
"Now, don't think my opinion on these matters is final," he seemed to say, "just because I'm stronger and more of a man than you are." We were in the same senior society, and while we were never intimate I always had the impression that he approved of me and wanted me to like him with some harsh, defiant wistfulness of his own.
We talked for a few minutes on the sunny porch."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Deadline is next friday 14th Oct, 9:00pm.
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