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Sigune — Brendan, This Island Is Moving...
Published: 2014-04-16 19:25:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 1595; Favourites: 53; Downloads: 0
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Illustration for WeMadeIt , a zine set up by LordRembo . You can now order digital copies of the first issue - it's worth your while!
Gawain is telling his brothers a story, as is his wont... Here is St Brendan, celebrating mass on the back of a whale!
Media: Copic Multiliners, Blockx and Winsor & Newton watercolours on Daler-Rowney Aquafine watercolour paper; texture by Princess-of-Shadows .
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Comments: 11
I love your style!!! 
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Thank you so very much!
I hope to start taking comics/illustration classes next year, so I'm glad to hear that makes sense in view of my style 
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Thank you! I'm glad you like it XD!
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Wonderful! If my memory serves me correctly, Gawain was the imaginative brother in "The Once and Future King." That depiction of St. Brendan celebrating mass on the whale is the best!
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White says that Agravain is the one with an imagination, but Gawain is the storytelling brother
Somehow I have had that image of S Brendan in the back of my head for a loooooong time. And now I finally saw an opportunity to do something with it...
I'm very glad you like it!
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It amuses me to imagine that the Whale in question is the cetacean equivalent of the Wandering Jew, serving penance for swallowing poor old Jonah! (also that after this St Brendan will just smile and nod whenever St Columba tries talking up how he exorcised the Monster from Loch Ness, like a big brother mildly unimpressed by his little brother's achievements).
Excellent work, by the by, Ms Sigune - it occurs to me that if ever you find yourself unwilling to think up anything TOO complicated to draw, you could use this same image of Gawain devoting himself to an account of some grand old tale told with only the very finest blarney! (changing only the image of the tale being told).
I hope that you remain well and fully trust you to keep up the good work!
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I had actually been thinking of doing something like that - a kind of pendant with adult Gawain telling tall tales to Arthur. I can imagine Lancelot rolling his eyes and asking Arthur if he actually believes any of this - but it's not Gawain's fault, he really does end up in crazy adventures all the time... And he tells a better story than Lancelot 
Thank you!
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You are very welcome and thank you for continuing to draw such fine Arthurian Images!
It should also be noted that the reason Sir Gawain tells tales much better than Sir Lancelot ever will is that the former gets more practice (since the Lady's Knight must keep his vocal chords supple and warmed-up so that he might continue to pursue his noble quest to save fair ladies from BOREDOM!).
I am surprised that you plan to include Sir Lancelot in your series; I must admit being possessed by the unworthy suspicion that such a fan of The Hawk of May would NEVER sully her series with that arriviste from the Otherworld!
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Hahaha! Surely I can't simply ignore Lancelot altogether, just because I can't stand the man 
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I must admit that I admire your attitude; I prefer to see adaptions make lemonade out of the lemons in any franchise, rather than throw out good fruit, however bitter it may be!
It should be said that I have increasingly come to see Sir Lancelot as a good deal younger than King Arthur and Queen Guinevere, coming to Camelot as a signal of 'The End of the Beginning' in the same way that Sir Mordred's arrival betokens the 'Beginning of the End' (if I might confess a personal distortion of the original myths, I once wrote a take on Arthurian myth where Mordred took the place of Sir Gareth - partly to avoid the traditional confusion with Sir Gaheris and partly to establish Arthur's nemesis as a formidable knight in his own right, as well as not COMPLETELY Evil).
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