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Art: "Knave of Spades" (G)
Friday, 2 November 2007 01:34 pmI drew this for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
snape_after_dh; my prompt was "Gryffindor's sword". The deadline was yesterday, but because I have been busier with RL than I expected to be at this time of year, I could not make it :/.
The picture is a little experimental for me. I wanted to evoke the atmosphere of Arthurian legend and found my inspiration in a book I bought recently, Le roman de Tristan et Iseut, an edition from 1941 with illustrations by Robert Engels (take a look at it here). The pictures are engravings, coloured with pale washes. I'm not saying that my picture looks like an engraving too, because it doesn't, but it has rather more texture than my usual drawings, and I added grey wash as well.
Knave of Spades – A spy, overlooking, authority; that which is unforeseen, vigilance, support.
( Knave of Spades )
snape_after_dh; my prompt was "Gryffindor's sword". The deadline was yesterday, but because I have been busier with RL than I expected to be at this time of year, I could not make it :/.The picture is a little experimental for me. I wanted to evoke the atmosphere of Arthurian legend and found my inspiration in a book I bought recently, Le roman de Tristan et Iseut, an edition from 1941 with illustrations by Robert Engels (take a look at it here). The pictures are engravings, coloured with pale washes. I'm not saying that my picture looks like an engraving too, because it doesn't, but it has rather more texture than my usual drawings, and I added grey wash as well.
Knave of Spades – A spy, overlooking, authority; that which is unforeseen, vigilance, support.
( Knave of Spades )
