Gawain: the comic 10-12

[sigune]

"She joyed in bending and warping men to her will through beauty and enchantment, and when these failed she used the blacker arts of treason and murder. It was her pleasure to use men against men, fashioning from their weaknesses weapons for their strength."
- John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights (1976)



This is one of the main problems I have with the impromptu sketch formula: as soon as there is a reasonable amount of dialogue, I have trouble placing my text bubbles properly. When I pencil, I make sure the text doesn't hinder the drawings and the other way around. When I ink directly, like I do here, I have to do the text bubbles before I do anything else, and sometimes they could to with erasing and relocation. Meh.

Well, that's a draft for you. In any case: the story continues.

As usual, concrit is welcome :).

What went before:
King Lot has brought his son Gawain to the Valley of No Return at the request of Morgana the Fay. He hands the child over, but he has a demand of his own to make. See how Morgana likes that...

Pages 1-3
Pages 4-6
Pages 7-9

Comments

[the-bitter-word.livejournal.com]

I love this. It's so engrossing and funny. I'm rejoicing that you are working on the story, even at this level. Lot - what a scoundrel!

(I didn't even notice the word bubbles. I'm probably not a source for concrit. Erm... I did notice the way you colored Morgana's lips in several panels. The use of color and the partial lines drew my eyes right to her lips. I liked that, but, who knows, I might be wrong in my perception of what's good in a drawing.)

[sigune.livejournal.com]

I'm rather enjoying the Two Colours thing, so I'm very happy Morgana's lips make an impression :). And yes, Lot is a terrible scoundrel. I just love writing him *g*.

Squee, squee, squee! I'm so happy you like the story. It's making me nervous though. I don't want to mess it up :).

I can't keep my eyes off your icon! It's lovely.