Prompt
· English
High angle over a wide scene of a 34-year-old woman, a tiny model-railway figure of a medieval scribe, hunched over a giant quill and a single page of parchment, treating the inkwell as a water hazard. She is of Central African descent with very deep brown skin with cool undertones, an oval face, deep blue eyes, soft rounded eyebrows, a thin silver nose ring, and thick deep waves in her long mid-back dark brown hair, styled in a single French braid. She wears aviator sunglasses and is dressed exactly as the role of the brief requires, in a simple medieval tunic. She is beaming with a wide open-mouthed smile that lifts the cheeks. A spilled drop of iron-gall ink forms a small pond near the inkwell, a miniature ladder leans against the quill's nib, and a tiny lantern hangs from the quill's shaft. The composition features one strong central figure with everything else leading to it. The lighting is orange firelight from below, casting dramatic upward shadows. The style is a screen print with flat layered colours and slight misregistration, giving the image a retro, printed feel.
