Sketchdump

[sigune]

I really don't like not being busy creating :/. But the story just isn't ready yet. I need a new beginning and a clear focus. Because drawing tends to get me there, I have been sketching. The results are below the cut.





Young Gawain, and an attempt at drawing a horse without reference :P.




Young Gawain and Sister Conchobarre

I happen to like Sister Conchobarre. You can't like her much yet because you have barely met her. That is supposed to change - hopefully soon :-).




*wants movement*

Ideally, I should like to give Gawain a very mobile fighting style. He's not particularly tall and not very muscular, but he is fast and agile. Unfortunately I don't know anything about martial arts - only about fencing, which is not very useful in a pre-1600s context :/. So I am a bit nervous about any fighting scenes to come. For the time being, I am working on putting that agility on paper. I am used to drawing stiff Snapes, so this requires some adapting.




Most sketches on this page are attempts to define King Arthur. There is an older Gawain at the left. The woman's identity is ... a secret :-).




Arthur, Morgwen, Gawain

I like this Arthur. He's probably not going to change much from here.
I like my Gawain elegant. Maybe a little too much so. As for the costume I have given him here, that is a long way away from the kind of clothing you have seen (however sketchily) in the Prologue. I have pretty much settled for huge changes in setting and period as the story rolls along. The idea is to start in the fifth century - when Arthur and his knights would supposedly have lived - and move all the way to the Renaissance for the story's end. That sort of covers the rise and fall of knighthood. I'm not sure if it is going to work, but I certainly intend to try it :-).




...And this is what you get when I try to draw a harness without reference. For a knight with very long arms ;-).

Comments

[death-ofme.livejournal.com]

Haha, Arthur's profile really does make him look like a lion!

I love the action poses for Gaiwan, so very dynamic. And also the little portrait of him older in the lefthand corner of one of your dumps.

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Isn't it funny? Nobody would associate my stuff with dynamism, but when I doodle I actually draw quite a few action poses. The thing is that I never feel secure enough about the anatomical correctness of such poses to use them in independent pictures. Hm.

Please do like Gawain ;-). He should be quite adorable *g*. (Question is, can I make him that?)

[death-ofme.livejournal.com]

We like to call big sweaty men with long pointy sticks brutes, but the truth is that deep down we find them impossibly adorable.