Kevin's Watch

Sorry about the slight artistic license I may take here and there...

Essentially, attempting to trap the first escape scene from the TOT chapter Charade's End on canvas. At the moment I'm struggling with the overall composition, and trying to get the characters appear as they did in my imagination. This is only a section of a larger image, as of yet rather rough, and I may add or toss out some folks; not sure what the final piece will look like.



Judging by the discussion threads in the main TC forum, people tend to associate the Giants with the Mediterranean culture. Well...I already managed to get my major influences from the Finnic-Norse mythology which prominently features sea-faring Giants (characters like Soini Kalevipoeg and his ship Lennuk ('Flight'), Suur Tõll and Leiger, not to mention Ægir, Hymir, etc.), which is why, for instance, my Honninscrave is a big, burly blonde with a Nordic countenance.

Not overly happy with Linden here, though. Not sure what I ought to do with her face.




(Deviantart link)

AMAZING!

Wow very excellent work... Curious.. is this hand drawn with a computer program or is it a scanned sketch? I noticed, the First and Linden look like they could be sisters..(They Also look very very much like a friend of mine) was that intentional? (not my friend but sisters) and i also wondered about the translucent effect on the firsts shield etc..

you mentioned anything that could be done with Linden... well its not how i picture her but everyone has a different view of the characters. I pictured her face being a little thinner but thats really all i can think of... I truly Love the look you have given the Giants.. I love the Nomadic Viking Look... its how i would have pictured the Giants. Longhaired like myself.

I would love to see more.. Very Excellent work again!!

Excellent, excellent job.

I have to agree with Blackhawk, that the First and Linden look similar.

But to me, the face fits Linden better than the First.

BTW I like the effervescent Findail in the Background

Great work!!!

Really cool stuff !! I always figured Linden looked more like Jennifer Anniston for some reason

Thanks, everyone, for the comments and compliments.

Blackhawk wrote:Curious.. is this hand drawn with a computer program or is it a scanned sketch? --- and i also wondered about the translucent effect on the firsts shield etc..

This is entirely digital; I use an A4 Wacom tablet for drawing. As for the transparency...I actually didn't mean her shield to be made of translucent rock (frankly, I can't recall a sentence which would've stated the material, so this is merely an assumption...), but now that you mention it, that might create a neat effect.

If you're referring to the blue/green lines winding in the background, those pertain to the so-called skeleton structures I use for figure drawing (at this point I usually don't hide those layers). Anyway, the shield was left blank as of yet because I couldn't figure out a suitable decoration: a coat of arms or another emblem that would either represent the Search or the sect of the Swordmainnir.

Blackhawk wrote:I noticed, the First and Linden look like they could be sisters..was that intentional? ---
you mentioned anything that could be done with Linden... well its not how i picture her but everyone has a different view of the characters. I pictured her face being a little thinner but thats really all i can think of...

drew wrote:I have to agree with Blackhawk, that the First and Linden look similar.

I may have unwittingly given them some similarities: I reffed the expressions in the eyes heavily from a mirror, plus kept swapping between the characters while sketching the faces. I could try reshaping her nose and chin. I'm fairly happy with the First myself, though I might sharpen her features a tad to fit the keen warrior look.

Vain wrote:I always figured Linden looked more like Jennifer Anniston for some reason

That's actually not a bad Linden approximation. Thanks for the tip.

Love your work

Love your work

A study on height differences, which turned into a more complicated piece...

Great! Thanks a lot and keep it up...

Wow !! Do you colour these in at a later stage?

Thanks, guys.

Vain wrote:Do you colour these in at a later stage?

Alas, if only I had the time. I sometimes do color my linearts, but since this phase usually takes up to two months per picture, I don't often get that chance. I'll probably post something less bichromatic eventually, but right now I'm mainly sketching.


In other news, does anyone know what a sark looks like? I do have some knowledge of medieval clothing, what with having sewn a couple of Viking garbs myself, but thus far I haven't managed to unearth a good reference of this mystifying item.

Zorm wrote:In other news, does anyone know what a sark looks like? I do have some knowledge of medieval clothing, what with having sewn a couple of Viking garbs myself, but thus far I haven't managed to unearth a good reference of this mystifying item.

Interesting stuff, Zorm.
I googled the Cutty Sark and images of the figurehead may be useful to you. The colour of the rock sark, is a grey-white that could give the garment it's name, but I'm not too sure there.
For a more modern sark, or chemise, try Ann Summers.

From the Burns poem

Tam then notices Nannie, whose “sark” is described:

Her cutty sark, o’ Paisley harn,
That while a lassie she had worn,
In longtitude tho’ sorely scanty,
It was her best, and she was vauntie.
Ah! little kend thy reverend grannie
That sark she coft for her wee Nannie
Wi’ twa pund Scots (‘twas a’ her riches)
Wad ever graced a dance of witches!

Here's a link to the John Fead illustrations (1855).

Hope this helps.

Your art is stunning, Zorm. However...

Zorm wrote: Not overly happy with Linden here, though. Not sure what I ought to do with her face.

...the correct answer to the question "What ought I to do about Linden's face?"is, according to THOOLAH at least, keep slapping it until she stops whining.

Krazy Kat wrote:I googled the Cutty Sark and images of the figurehead may be useful to you. The colour of the rock sark, is a grey-white that could give the garment it's name, but I'm not too sure there.
Here's a link to the John Fead illustrations (1855).

*has odd mental images of the figurehead's dress made of interlocking stone disks* Well...perhaps the Giantesses of Starfare's Gem wore something more...protective. XDD

Anyhow, I just had a serious facepalm moment; my brain must've been hibernating these past few weeks. So we're talking about a paitamekko or a serkr. Thanks for the reffs which finally elbowed my braincells back to life. (Also love those illustrations!)

I still kind of doubt whether SRD's referring to a full-length serkr while talking about Giantish clothing. Perhaps it's more akin to a medieval tunic/kirtle, or the so-called short version also mentioned on that site. Ah well, I can be a bit of a nitpicker when it comes to terminology. XD

TheFallen wrote:...the correct answer to the question "What ought I to do about Linden's face?"is, according to THOOLAH at least, keep slapping it until she stops whining.

Well...I'm quite a fan of both TC and Linden, but that doesn't mean I didn't want to do exactly that to both sods more than just a handful of times.

Zorm wrote:Well...I'm quite a fan of both TC and Linden, but that doesn't mean I didn't want to do exactly that to both sods more than just a handful of times.

THOOLAH may well approve your membership

I was just gonna comment that "sark" must be a direct equivalent of the Swedish "särk" (it is still a word today), which seems to have been the cutting edge of haute couture for serfs and vikings alike, some time ago. But it seems you made the connection to serkr yourself.

A link (to the Swedish historical museum): histvarld.historiska.se/histvarld/draek ... /sark.html.

Edit: really rude of me to just jump in here all besserwisser and stuff, when I haven't said what should be said first and foremost: Great stuff!

Vain wrote: THOOLAH may well approve your membership

Perchance I'll remain somewhere in the middle ground, where I can express a...wider range of opinions. Besides, she healed one of my favorite characters ever, which I shall not instantly forget.

Khazduk wrote:it: really rude of me to just jump in here all besserwisser and stuff, when I haven't said what should be said first and foremost: Great stuff!

I didn't think it was rude at all; I had totally forgotten that the whole särk word existed (also, thanks for the compliments ). I have read a couple of Swedish text about the Viking-era findings of Birka, et cetera, but have concentrated mostly on kirtles and kaftans and the usage of silk.