CAMILLA

"Camilla"

01-02.01.2014

Mech pencil on Moleskine, digital texture

He had spent the previous night at his spacious flat in Eaton Place in the company of Camilla, a music student with a long body and a sad, beautiful face. Though she was not more than twenty, her black hair was streaked with grey, as if from a shock she never talked about. As another effect, perhaps, of the same undescribed trauma, she ate no meat, wore no leather and drank nothing alcoholic; only in love, it seemed to Guillam, she was free of these mysterious restraints.

- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John le Carré

I may revisit this piece. 

With Camilla's character, it is interesting because she does not feature in the film, as it deviates from the book slightly in the way of Peter Guillam's relationships. I would've liked to have made her face plainer, her eyes more sad, and her whole image feverishly gaunt. I picture her always in dark rooms, face partially lit by dim lights.