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Description Done it for a friend, but I'm uploading here also

It's a portrait of french Knights at the battle of Agincourt, 1415. Had to do a little research for the armor details, and it's not perfect, of course. The Scanner messed up a little bit, and some details were lost, so it's not a masterpiece or something. But it's reasonable anyway, so I'm posting it here. Any kind of feedback is extremely welcome.

The Battle of Agincourt, (close to Calais on northern France) was an extremely famous victory of the British army of 6000 men, most of them longbowmen ,trained peasants, but peasants nonetheless, and dismounted knights against the flower of the french nobility, consisting of approximately 36000 knights and infantry during the early XV century. The muddy battlefield hampered the advance of the really well equipped, but terribly heavy french knights, allowing the experienced british archers, armed with the famed longbow, to pour huge amounts of arrows at the enemy, and finishing the drowning knights with clubs and daggers. That was one of the most incredible victories of british history, and proved once again that the cavalry could be defeated by well trained -and much cheaper - infantry.
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DiktatorAlexander [2016-01-04 18:49:23 +0000 UTC]

 The Battle of Agincourt was an interesting but truly amazing battle.


 As a different note, are you sure 'Game of thrones' depicts people back then accurately? Just because you see something in a Television show doesn't mean it's accurate. These Television writers have a habit of making people look more vile than what they really were for reasons that are beyond me.  

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EmirHamam In reply to DiktatorAlexander [2016-01-25 22:54:06 +0000 UTC]

Well, the TV show (and the GoT universe) focuses almost entirely on the nobility (the books are somewhat better in focusing on other social classes, and they do a pretty good job at it). In a time of all-out war, I believe things would get pretty rough (just look at the level of violence in the 30 years war in the beginning of the XVII century and you'll understand what I mean by "rough"), but I do agree with you, they portray the world as something without honor or order, which is not entirely true. Of course it was violent and was brutal, but there was SOME sense of overall justice and rule of law - based on Christianity for Europe or Islam for the Middle East - and, at least amongst themselves, they weren't that different. There were rules in war (which were occasionally ignored sometimes, just as ours are today), and - generally speaking - you'd be an outcast leader if you just started chopping people's heads without reason, especially because the ruler doesn't have a standing army and needs to trust their nobles to follow him and be loyal. 

To sum it all up - the show portraits a period of civil war, not an average, peaceful period. Despite a few dramatic exaggerations (like the cruelty of the Mountain), I don't think it's the worst show ever to represent the relation between enemies in a period like that. 

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C666O [2012-09-19 10:54:48 +0000 UTC]

This looks like straight out of a Fantasy novel only it it really gruesome battle according to many readings. After watching Game of Thrones living in the middle ages really sucks. It does not look fun and romantic as depicted in fiction.

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EmirHamam In reply to C666O [2012-09-20 05:37:22 +0000 UTC]

At fucking all. Bernard Cornwell describes it greatly. It sucked. Knights were monsters, monsters were people.

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kalika12 [2012-09-16 16:13:01 +0000 UTC]

Esse desenho me convenceu de que o cavalheirismo morreu MESMO em Agincourt!
Ótimo trabalho!

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EmirHamam In reply to kalika12 [2012-09-18 01:34:02 +0000 UTC]

Heh, eu pessoalmente acho que nunca existiu!

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Thandorian98 [2011-01-16 06:06:56 +0000 UTC]

I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Check out mine, mine is the same but with about 70 guys in minature detail!!!!
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"kill the mutant, burn the heretic, purge the unclean!"

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Tarin-san [2011-01-12 21:21:38 +0000 UTC]

Awesome work with the detials. You really captured the moment there.

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EmirHamam In reply to Tarin-san [2011-01-13 14:17:54 +0000 UTC]

thanks tarin! stalking people again, are ya?

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Tarin-san In reply to EmirHamam [2011-01-13 19:12:48 +0000 UTC]

Heh maybe... :3

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Chaosfive-55 [2010-11-12 23:58:21 +0000 UTC]

It was indeed an incredible victory...but at the same time a horrific piece of butchery...

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EmirHamam In reply to Chaosfive-55 [2010-11-13 00:02:25 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, we have this irritating habit of butchering ourselves. And we never get tired!

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Chaosfive-55 In reply to EmirHamam [2010-11-13 00:09:29 +0000 UTC]

Too true!...but how boring life would be without such history

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longbow1415 [2010-04-19 02:58:44 +0000 UTC]

Love it. There are so few good historical drawings

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bernache-solitaire [2010-04-19 01:32:03 +0000 UTC]

Very well done !

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hippo2 [2010-04-18 06:10:40 +0000 UTC]

I know this scene from somehwere. Probably Branaghs "Henry V".

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Anadroj [2010-01-29 21:59:12 +0000 UTC]

Wow I love it!!!
Details are essential and a good historical references make your draw shine!!!

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