Gawain comic: The Darkest Hour, 4-6

[sigune]

"Like I said, you want to make him miserable, and yourself with it. That is why old Klingsor should lend a helping hand."
- Adolf Muschg, Der Rote Ritter (1993)



It's been one of those weeks... I haven't drawn nearly as much of the story as I'd hoped. Next week I should do better :-).

Do you remember my Gawain and Ragnell picture? It won me the third prize in the Arthurian Contest at deviantART :D. I'm really pleased with that - I wasn't really expecting it to do well. Almost all other entries were digital paintings and photomanips, so I thought the judges would think my black and white, inked lineart hopelessly old-fashioned. But apparently they liked it. Hee.

I must not forget to scan and post a few Arthurs that I sketched this week. The sketches are good news, because they mean I am getting to know Arthur - and he is pretty crucial in Gawain's story. Arthur scares me. He has to be really, really strong as a character, because he truly is the best-known figure in the entire story. And he's so difficult. Well, for me at least.

Anyway - let's return to the story. As always, constructive criticism is welcome!

What went before:
On a dark winter's night, a strange figure enters a stronghold. Who is he? What is he doing there? And has anyone escaped his sleeping spell?

The Darkest Hour 1-3

Comments

[blue-nadir.livejournal.com]

Hmm! I understood that we were going into another scene after the title page, but it didn't come across as a flashback. Tacky as it may be, putting up a "15 years earlier" caption might clear it up. Although, it would clash with the first speech bubble in panel 1 of that page... I DON'T KNOW. Comics are complicated!

[sigune.livejournal.com]

They are :D. But sometimes there are simple tricks like using rounded frames or some such, to make clear that the timeframe has shifted... I wanted to avoid that because this flashback is going to be rather long - more of a story within a story - but if things are unclear, I'll have to change my mind :-). As for an explicit time indication, I have been avoiding that too, not for any reasons of tackiness but mostly because I don't want the timeframe to be strict. Partly because I am hopeless at mathematics ;P, but also because I want to keep within the sphere of legend. Time is elastic there *g*.

I'm thinking about my options :). Thanks!