Henry, internally: wow❗️I am just ✨ so gay ️ it’s astounding how fuckin gay ❤️ I am I’ve never ♂️ been straight in my entire life I cannot ❌ function in this moment
from RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE, which everyone should go read right now because i am never going to shut up about it anytime soon ((pls click for better quality!!!!))
Alex Claremont-Diaz is not throwin’ away his shot! *chortles*
Per EVERYONE’s request, albeit @andakillerqueen beat everyone to the punch, here is the Red Room Scene from Red White and Royal Blue! Having seen this room in person on a tour of the White House, this was a fun challenge. Although I swear, it took just as long to paint the dang Hamilton painting and its picture frame as it did to paint Henry and Alex. Lol
I always knew I wanted to draw this as a split screen moment — each of their bodies creating the parentheses with their respective bedrooms bleeding into each other — but it was my talented friend @penpanoply who had the idea of hand-lettering the quotations from Alex & Henry’s emails into the bedsheets between them. So she did! Be sure to click to view the close up of her perfect handlettering and the gorgeous sheet patterns she created!
“He rolls onto his side and listens, trails the back of his hand across the pillow next to him and imagines Henry lying opposite in his own bed, two parentheses enclosing 3,700 miles.” - Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
It’s always a pleasure to collaborate with you, Jeska. Thank you again for your hand in this picture. I love it so much. ❤️
Then, without warning, it changes again, turbulent chords circling back into something familiar—the Elton John songbook. Henry closes his eyes, playing from memory. It’s “Your Song.” *Oh.*
-Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
(Note: Next time I feel compelled to draw a piano on Procreate, please slap me in the face. )
