Art: Gawain and Ragnell (G)

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"But Sir Gawain looked steadily at the Lady, and something in that pathetic pride and the way she lifted her hideous head made him think of a deer with the hounds about it, and something in the depth of her bleared gaze reached him like a cry for help. And he glared about him at his fellow knights. 'Nay now, why these sideways looks and troubled faces? Kay was ever an ill-mannered hound! The matter was never in doubt, for last night did I not tell the King that I would marry this lady; and marry her I will, if she will have me!'"
- Rosemary Sutcliff, The Sword and the Circle (1981)



I have three new pages of the comic for you; the posting got delayed till tomorrow (well, later today :P) because I was working on my Gawain and Ragnell picture. It was done for a contest at deviantART that ended today (well, yesterday in the meantime) at 6 p.m. BST, and I only finished it twenty minutes before the deadline :).

I originally intended to paint it, but as I could barely finish the inks on time, that was completely out of the question in the end. Now everybody will think Gawain is blond, argh.

;)



Maybe I should warn you that the picture is fairly large. If I make it any smaller, all the fine linework will be lost.







I nearly gave up on this picture entirely. The inking of Gawain went really well, but there was a week inbetween that and the inking of Ragnell, which was something of a disaster. I don't know why - maybe I'd had too much coffee and my hand wasn't as steady :/. Fortunately in the end the lady came out all right.

Oh, and I gave Gawain a sword. I'm drawing stories about knights and I keep forgetting about the swords! It just occurred to me that in the comic Lot, too, is walking around the forest unarmed. *headdesk*

I think I need an editor ;).

Good old Staedtler pens on paper.