Gawain Project: The Darkest Hour 1-3

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"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.

[sophierom.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry that I haven't been keeping up with this! I'll have to go back to the beginning soon, but I wanted to stop by and say - Wow! I especially love that first panel (not sure if that's the correct terminology).

[death-ofme.livejournal.com]

Ooh, the perspective for the first page was really interesting. I stared at it for a good minute before realizing what it was and then my brain sort of went "COOOOOL!!!"

I'm intrigued...who are these sleeping men....who is that sneaking in....what's going to happen...?

[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?

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

Oh, sinister! I love the bird tracks in the first one, and the puff of smoke in the close-up -- very evocative without being too complicated.

Very curious to see where it's going.

[ysilme]

Just starting re-watching this, since it's been far too long since the first time...
I love the top view perspective of the first image, it's a great way to start, like zooming in. The bird prints are such a sweet detail. ♥