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NO.1 FITZROBERTS SQUARE
Fri 30 Mar 2018

The first panel of The Rainbow Orchid, drawn in March 1997, shows the exterior of Sir Alfred Catesby-Grey's home, and the headquarters of his Ancient and Historical Research service. The first version was quite plain ("a dead movie set"), so I redrew it in December 2008 to give it a bit more life. You can read more about that in an earlier blog post - Set Dressing.

Also in that opening scene we see some of the building's interior - a bit of the hallway, the library, the collection room, and Sir Alfred's office. Later we see the breakfast room, which also made an appearance in The Secret of the Samurai, where I mapped out the room more properly. This made a big difference to the way I drew it and the way it came across in the strip - it had a much better sense of both space and place. You can read a bit more about that in this blog post - The Secret of the Samurai - Part 2. Another post on designing the environment can be seen here - Map Room.

This is all part of my learning process and a desire to make the world that Julius Chancer inhabits more realistic, or at least more believable. With this in mind, and having to show yet more of Sir Alfred's house in the next adventure, I have ended up going the whole hog and mapping out the entire building, both exterior and interior. A bit crazy perhaps, but now the setting is real to me and makes sense. (Some of it was hard to make sense of as I'd already drawn various rooms with windows in various places - but it all joined up in the end!)

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