As a budding illustrator, I like to draw. Everywhere. On my iPhone. iPad. Desktop. Laptop. Paper. Everywhere.

Sometimes, when I open up a book full of text, I immediately think to myself what it would like in pictures. What would the characters look like? What would the background look like?

I know I can't take a modern, contemporary novel and convert that into a graphic novel because I will run into copyright infringement issues. I would have to ask the publisher and make a formal proposal, and the publisher can outright refuse my proposal.

So, I can just take on the classics that are now part of the public domain and convert those stories into graphic novel form.

But a lot of public-domain classic stories have been made into graphic novels, and I would have competition.

So, I need to look for public-domain classic stories that have not been made into graphic novels yet, and I can start from there.

Something like:

A Daughter of the Samurai by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto.

Though, to be honest, I may have to do some historical research so I can figure out what things actually look like before I actually draw them!