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A character of the saxon mithology, the slayer of the demon grendela draw for Myths & legends TCG
Pen + Photoshop
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"Grendel, I come for you!" Beowulf is one of my favorite Anglo-Saxon heroes, battling monsters such as Grendel and the dragon.
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Man, this Beowulf is awesome!
Fantastic armor, scenary and this monster, is very nice!
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Beowulf, greatest of norse/germanic heroes next to Sigurd the Volsung. Glad to finally see someone depict him with black hair, seems like everyone screws that detail up that he was the only man among his crew with black hair
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they actually honored Volsung in Skyrim by naming a Dragon Priest after him
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I always liked that lol
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Looks cool, but Beowulf was a viking. Where is the beard and Saxon accouterments
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the story of beowulf was an awesome read....i like how you illustrated him....
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Now this is what the movie Beowulf should have been.
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We just read Beowulf in my Literature class. Dude was badass!
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Why is Mr. T in staring at me from the bottom right corner of the pic?
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Very cool. I enjoyed reading Beowulf for junior English; everyone else wasn't as entertained, sadly.
Definitely beats the CGI film version of Beowulf. Movie was okay, loosely followed the poem but still good...
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Wow! I love the overall anime-esque look of history's first monster-masher here. Beowulf was an awesome story- great work!
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You really made Beowulf...how should I say?...Epic!
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Really nice, though he doesn't look very Swedish. ._.
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cool. I saw one of the old Beowulf movies some years ago, where he fought Grendel. It was cool and full of action.
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This is such s great job, I love the way the face and the terrain look, and the clouds seem really real! I am reading this in my English class, and I thought I'd look him up. I'm glad I did!!!
Great job.
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haha waitin for the movie next week huh? good pic
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and Grendals mother...and the namless dragon...who later killed him..
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Did they just HAVE to kill him in the story?
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Yes. The dragon was more or less eternity, and no man, no matter how bad ass, can truly fight man's fate of death. He was old, and still so foolishly proud to go out and fight the dragon...
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I have nothing against artistic license, but I do have something against historical inaccuracy. And whilst it may be true that it is fantasy, it also takes place in an actual historical historical period, and an actual historical place, people who, for the most part, were created to reflect people and life at the time it was written (somewhere around the 6th to 9th century). And your comment about what I said about the armor seems to go against every bit of historical evidence we have. True, there are many different armor, but plate armor wasn't even in use at that time, and even if it was, the Vikings wouldn't be wearing it. The oddest thing about all this has to be the fact that the illustrator seems to be taking this better than you are.
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El arte esta super excelente y los detalles estan pasaos. Tremendo trabajo, te felicito por tu gran talento. 
Oooh...y no le agas caso al imbecil q esta por debajo de mi. Hablo mucho y penso poco.
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One more thing:
10. Grendel wasn't a demon.
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Demon is also a commonly used umbrella term for mythological creatures, typically synonymous with monster. There have been some texts in which Djinn, Imps, and Ifrits were referred to as demons.
Grendel, being even more malevolent and monstrous than those three creatures, could easily be considered a demon.
Also, I do know the traditional meaning of a demon, being one of the Nephilim, but I also know that demons have come to be used to describe monsters of any type in literature.
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Where to start...
1. That's not Beowulf.
2. Beowulf had a beard.
3. Beowulf was a viking, therefore had little, if any armor, and that would be chain mail.
4. That sword is too big.
5. The sword's blade is far too wide. The tang would snap under it's weight.
6. the sword's pommel is too small.
7. In the epic poem, it took four men to carry Grendel's head, so large and heavy as it was.
8. Beowulf is not a Saxon poem, it is an Anglo-Saxon poem.
9. Beowulf was a Geat, at that time, meaning he was a Norseman. No Viking ever dressed like that. They were far too poor.
Spend a few years studying Nordic history and try again.
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