Gawain Project: The Darkest Hour, 51-53

[sigune]

"But the duke of Tintagil espied how the king rode from the siege of Terrabil, and therefore that night he issued out of the castle at a postern, for to have distressed the king's host."
- The Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table,
abridged from Malory's Morte d'Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard (1917)



Alas, alack, I'm in a hurry! I'll have to post this quickly. I have a few questions for you though, which I will post later.

I couldn't resist inking the first page with my good old Staedtler pens. (I had drawn a pencil sketch first because I'm bad at this kind of angle of the head - despite the pencils, that still shows, I'm afraid. But I had added some fine detail that I couldn't ink with my Faber-Castells and which I wanted to preserve. Hence the Staedtlers.)

The second page is all brush pen, and the third is a mix.

Opinions?

On the third page, I drew quite a bit of detail and clear outline when it suddenly occurred to me that the point of this page is the mist that Merlin has conjured up. Head, meet desk. So I cheated and while cleaning up the scan wiped out some of the background.

That's it for today. I hope you enjoy the continuation :-).

As always, concrit is very welcome!

What went before:
Merlin's magic has procured King Uther entrance to Tintagel, and Lady Ygraine is cruelly deceived. But what is happening to her husband while all this is going on?

The Darkest Hour 1-3
The Darkest Hour 4-6
The Darkest Hour 7-9
The Darkest Hour 10-12
The Darkest Hour 13-15
The Darkest Hour 16-18
The Darkest Hour 19-21
The Darkest Hour 22-24
The Darkest Hour 25-27
The Darkest Hour 28-31
The Darkest Hour 32-35
The Darkest Hour 36-40
The Darkest Hour 41-44
The Darkest Hour 45-47
The Darkest Hour 48-50

Comments

[branquignole.livejournal.com]

Whoa, first page - incredibly powerful in my opinion. :) I like the clear outlines you get from inking the drawings, and although I rather like brush pens, I like the Staedtler pens better. But as I may have said multiple times, I'm really not an expert, so...
It's a shame you had to wipe out the detailed background, though. Not only because I would have liked to see it, but also because a lot of work probably went into it.

Anyway, still intrigued by the comic. :)

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

I'm wondering whether it would look odd if I used both brushes and Staedtlers. Part of my motivation fro using brushes is that I can really work more quickly with them. Then again, if I ink 'in earnest' I'll be more fastidious about my brushed lines than I am in this storyboard, so... Meh. I still haven't decided.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

The suspense grows!

I love the last panel, the misty warriors...lovely!

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

There's going to be quite a bit of mist in the story at large; I'd better learn to draw it well :-).

[ysilme]

And more tension... you're really good at that, you know? That first image is amazing, and also very beautiful (I simply love his little fingers, I have no idea why *g* ), and the last image with the soliders in mist is also briliant.