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

[corbye.livejournal.com]

Is this the eunuch we were introduced to previously?

The birds eye view in the first panel is beautiful. At first I thought it was a Japanese abstraction, especially since the contrasts of dark and light in the figure's cloak look rather like the eyes in a peacock's tail.

Sinister or merely an early visitor?

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Can't give that away, sorry! :D

LOL - these few pages really do lay bare my major shortcomings, don't they? The perspective is positively wonky. I'm not sure it's a good thing that readers have to stare at a page for a minute before it's clear what is shown - though I am very flattered by the suggestion that it might be a Japanese abstraction XD.

Yes, it's the Mysterious Mr Eunuch. I like him so much that I let him open the story :-).

[bettyboop-comic.livejournal.com]

Perspective looked more than fine to me. I think I'd seen some of the sketches you did for that first page previously, and at no point was it unclear to me what you were doing/portraying. Also: if the image presented is unconventional (i.e. Bird's Eye view) even the best illustrators will have their audience recalibrate their vision to accept the image. By no means does this reflect on your PERCEIVED/ALLEGED shortcomings.
That one image is at least as good as say, Terry Moore or Wendy Pini.
Not to slight the other people here, but how many of them read comics regularly?