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The final installment in my little Shakespeare tragedy series:

Of all 4 of these drawings, I feel the least enthralled about the finished product with this one. That background is pure garbage- clearly just an ilumination effect against a solid purple canvas. I wanted something much different, but I was driving myself half-insane trying to produce the desired effect. Nonetheless, the characters are as follows:
The top half of the picture is Lear's daughters and bastard-child Edmund, who deceives the Earl of Gloucester into disowning his (Edmund's) brother, Edward. He's supposed to be the central villain, but the fact that he feels remorse in the end (as he's dying, of course), whereas Lear's comically wicked daughters, Regan (far left) and eldest Goneril (right of Regan) are just straight evil till the end, kind of better instills that quality in them. Those two were, in fact, so evil, it kind of gets corny after a while. Like when they're fighting over which one of them is going to off her husband and marry Edmund. They bear an almost striking resemblance to Ryoko and Ayeka from fucking Tenchi Muyo...
All the way over to the right is poor little Cordelia, whom batshit-crazy Lear disowns at the beginning of the story because she can't express her love for her father artfully. Of course, the rotten bastard eventually realizes he disowned the wrong daughter...and I love it how the only thing he can think to say when she dies is something which basically translates to: "she had a soft voice. Women with soft voices are often good people."
Down on the bottom we hae Lear and his merry band of nutcases. The old man in the cloak on the far left is Lear's closest confidant, the Earl of Kent, who follows Lear, disguised (hell of a disguise I gave him) to tend to his lord in his (Lear's) madness. That fat jolly bastard in the middle is Lear himself (I always pictured him fat. I think I always pictured him resembling Henry VIII), with his trust "Fool" seated on his knee. Shakespeare's "Fool" and "Clown" characters are always really Shakespeare's witty, clever bastards, and his opportunity to show off his mastery of the English language. But the Fool in King Lear really takes the nut. This guy's ramblings are TOO COMPLEX. I have massive portions of the Fool's text highlighted in my copy of King Lear with an arrow leading to a question mark.
My interpretation of the Fool is fairly comical. I think it's the fact that Lear keeps calling him "boy". I always pictured him being really small. Lear himself is my least favorite drawing in this picture. He just seems sloppy. And he looks more obese than old.
Finally, all the way on the far right is the hero, Edgar, disguised as "Poor Tom". Another great disguise I gave him, too. But how disguised could he really be?
And that's that. Ultimately felt like I could have produced something better. Critique it if you feel like it and let me know what you think.

Description
The final installment in my little Shakespeare tragedy series:

Of all 4 of these drawings, I feel the least enthralled about the finished product with this one. That background is pure garbage- clearly just an ilumination effect against a solid purple canvas. I wanted something much different, but I was driving myself half-insane trying to produce the desired effect. Nonetheless, the characters are as follows:
The top half of the picture is Lear's daughters and bastard-child Edmund, who deceives the Earl of Gloucester into disowning his (Edmund's) brother, Edward. He's supposed to be the central villain, but the fact that he feels remorse in the end (as he's dying, of course), whereas Lear's comically wicked daughters, Regan (far left) and eldest Goneril (right of Regan) are just straight evil till the end, kind of better instills that quality in them. Those two were, in fact, so evil, it kind of gets corny after a while. Like when they're fighting over which one of them is going to off her husband and marry Edmund. They bear an almost striking resemblance to Ryoko and Ayeka from fucking Tenchi Muyo...
All the way over to the right is poor little Cordelia, whom batshit-crazy Lear disowns at the beginning of the story because she can't express her love for her father artfully. Of course, the rotten bastard eventually realizes he disowned the wrong daughter...and I love it how the only thing he can think to say when she dies is something which basically translates to: "she had a soft voice. Women with soft voices are often good people."
Down on the bottom we hae Lear and his merry band of nutcases. The old man in the cloak on the far left is Lear's closest confidant, the Earl of Kent, who follows Lear, disguised (hell of a disguise I gave him) to tend to his lord in his (Lear's) madness. That fat jolly bastard in the middle is Lear himself (I always pictured him fat. I think I always pictured him resembling Henry VIII), with his trust "Fool" seated on his knee. Shakespeare's "Fool" and "Clown" characters are always really Shakespeare's witty, clever bastards, and his opportunity to show off his mastery of the English language. But the Fool in King Lear really takes the nut. This guy's ramblings are TOO COMPLEX. I have massive portions of the Fool's text highlighted in my copy of King Lear with an arrow leading to a question mark.
My interpretation of the Fool is fairly comical. I think it's the fact that Lear keeps calling him "boy". I always pictured him being really small. Lear himself is my least favorite drawing in this picture. He just seems sloppy. And he looks more obese than old.
Finally, all the way on the far right is the hero, Edgar, disguised as "Poor Tom". Another great disguise I gave him, too. But how disguised could he really be?
And that's that. Ultimately felt like I could have produced something better. Critique it if you feel like it and let me know what you think.