Gawain Project: The Darkest Hour 1-3

[sigune]

"Herzeloyde summoned a false priest, of whom it was said that he rode as fast as a woman's thought. She thought him to her with all her soul's fierceness. But he only arrived the next morning, by coincidence, as he told the guard, because his mule needed rest, and because he himself would have tea with the lady of the castle."
- Adolf Muschg, Der Rote Ritter (1993)



Today's quote is, I fear, my own quick meagre translation from the original German. Forgive me. I just tried to get the gist across.

I am back with more story! It starts rather slowly, I fear - I considered bigger jumps, but they didn't satisfy me. I hoped to draw four pages by today, because that would make a neater beginning, but I have had to arrange a birthday party while the universe conspired against me, so I got less done than I would have wanted :/. It's three pages then, as usual.

We are going back in time for some very necessary backstory. Don't worry about the pace: it will soon pick up :).

Comments

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Very interesting. For some reason, I love the closeup of the face puffing out wispy clouds.

Also, I don't know why, but the bird tracks really distracted me in the first piece, though the rest of it is awesome.

(Please remember that I know nothing about art--this is just me babbling.)

And I am often intrigued by wordless stuff. This really was interesting.

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

The bird tracks - I added those in an attempt to show that the landscape is covered with snow. Not sure if it works :P.

I love dialogue, as you can imagine, but as comics are also a visual medium, I try to avoid unnecessary text. It's a challenge, but one of the things that make drawing comics particularly exciting :-).