I'll feel happier when I am drawing panels again :-). I think I'm slowly getting somewhere though...

Yes, poor Gawain - what am I doing to him? I don't think a lot of girls will laugh at him, but his fellow knights may be another matter. *g*
My idea for his style of fighting actually comes from the old Irish epics of the Ulster Cycle. Cúchuláin learns his fighting skills from a Scottish woman called Scathach. She teaches him things with names like "the Salmon Leap", which somehow led me to imagine ninja-ish manoeuvres :-).

Thanks!