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Published: 2007-01-21 17:23:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 15181; Favourites: 270; Downloads: 350
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Pencil on card. (The original title is "Don't Go", but DA can't handle apostrophes.)Sir Aylwin D'Ashinvaine and Anna Comnena, characters from an old story of mine, from many moons ago, called 'Pilgrimage to Damnation'. (Yes, that's where I borrowed my deviant name from). An Anglo-Norman knight of the First Crusade, and a Byzantine princess, parting on the Bosphorus, as he prepares to cross the water to fight the Turks and recover Jerusalem for Christ.
I wish I lived in Victorian times. They went in for this sort of thing back then, emotional narratives, medieval themes, heroes torn between duty and love, pathos and romance and tragedy and all that. Ah well... I might add a background with some towers and domes and ships' masts eventually.
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The expressions are like out of some old paintings! Love it! Faved!
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I love the rich background of your art, the stories that they have behind! Thank you for sharing this amazing work!
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This is fantastic. I especially like the contrast between the knight's armor and coat and the princess's ornate-looking robes. Did you use any particular historical facial references for Anna? Not that there are many around... the only one I've ever seen is this one [link] (it was used on the cover of a book analyzing the Alexiad, but it didn't source the picture).
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Thanks. I didn't use any particular reference, and there are a few mistakes, for example she's wearing a male's cloak.
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I have only to say that this is one of the best drawings ive ever seen here on DA!!!Im so in love with the chararacers' pose,anatomy,feelings,expressions etc=everything!A work very well done...and for me it is perfect even without the background you added...I just stayed stunned for a while admiring this great pencil masterpiece...One of my favs of yours....just...congratulations!
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You are mostly welcome!
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I wish you would finish this one complete with details--towers, landscape, etc.
LOVE IT!
I too love the Romantic of the Medieval time period...
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Here's the other version, with a background... [link]
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YOU MUST MAKE MORE, DASHINVAINE.
This is absolutely beautiful. You have an intriguing perspective, and your art is gorgeous.
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this is beautiful. i love the detail and the expressions. And i agree with you. I believe i was born in the wrong era.
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As I say the ideal world would be the Middle Ages with the internet and toothpaste.
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Absolutely gorgeous detail. You could stare at it for hours and still find something new.
I completely agree with you about wanting to be a Victorian...
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This is a lovely picture. Wonderful detail! A very sensitive portrayal.
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very cool XD
im playing total war medieval crusades, thats how i knew about byzantese empire and the other subjects.
ps im going to studie european medieval martial arts soon, it are the martial arts in europe that were lost in time, but reconstructed from 13 to 16th century manuscripts. the new school originated in canada by a talented martial arts student of asian martial arts i believe, but has one sidewing: here in my home country: holland. i cant wait 
((ps: 1) matial arts is nothing more then militairy tactics, dont believe the crazy japanese with their "magical glory and arrogance when blowing up their so called ultimate warrior. 2) in europe the martial arts were much more advanced, but because europe went through so much change, it died out. were in for instance japan and china, such technologie was later introduced, but i suppose thats why they still have managed to keep theirs for that manner, not that they actually invent much on their own 
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Don't Forget the Maronite Catholics! The Knights could never have taken Jeruselem without their aid:
1. Maronite Church
Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and of all the East (See: Diman, Lebanon): Nasrallah Sfeir (1920, elected in 1986)
Members: 2.800.000 (of which approximately two thirds in diaspora)
Maronites are mostly present in Lebanon, with a very important diaspora of nearly half of the followers. Created in the Convent of Saint Maron (Apamee, Syria), a small monastic community settles in the Lebanese mountains in the Vth Century to escape from monophistsβ hostility. The Crusades enabled them to seal their union with Rome. The Maronite Church is the sole Catholic Eastern church not to be born as result of dissidence from an Orthodox church. In 1860, at the time of massacres of Maronites, they asked for the Popeβs help, but eventually it was France who intervened and forced the Ottoman Empire to recognise the countryβs autonomy. The Lebanese confessional political system led to two bloody civil wars (1958 and 1975-1989) which resulted in the Taef Agreements. These agreements, reduced the Presidential power (Christian Maronite) to the profit of the Prime minister (Sunnite Muslim) and of the Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly (Shiite Muslim). The Church, the religious hierarchy and the monastic orders play a very important role in the economic and political life of Lebanon.
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The Maronites had little to do with the capture of Jerusalem, but they were handy allies in the County of Tripoli, which the good old St-Golles counts of Toulouse established (they whose ancestors would later be on the receiving end of the Albigensian Crusade, ironically. Later Jerusalem (after the massacre) was partially resettled by Syrian Christians from the Transjordan, brought in by king Baldwin. Not Maronites, though.
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wow a remarkable piece
You've captured the emotion, detail, time period and put it all together in this demonstration of the good old existance of chivalry and courtship
wonderful!
Would LOVE any tips on drawing material and clothing if you would give it, hair and clothing is just something I've always been sucky at.
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Thanks. Best tip is to find references, i.e. figures in similar poses to those you want.
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Oh.....my.....god....This is beautiful! I love all the detail- I adore history, so this is amazing!
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There's just one thing about the woman's cape: isn't it in fact a men's cape? Recently we had an archaeological fashion show at university and it was one of my male fellow students who wore a cape like this with a rectangular "patchwork" piece attached to it - i think it was situated a bit lower than in your painting. And this "patchwork" piece - as we had been told - was used at ceremonies to lay the sword upon.
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I think you might be right.
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I like it! You captured the emotion of the moment and the details very well.
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A very tender moment so well captured. Very lovely.
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Very well done. I really like all the details of the costumes, etc.
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oh its so beautiful and really moving. i wish i could draw like that
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i can tell you like the midevil stuff. very cool! it looks like its been taken from a movie or it should be the cover of a book.
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Love the emotional depth and the careful study you've made of her elaborate jewels and dress. This could easily be an early Holman Hunt, when he was still a Preraffaelite Brother...
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Ah, what times to be alive...
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This is beautiful. Something that I believe could improve your drawings immensely is not using such hard lines. It tends to separate the characters, insteda of bring them together.
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This is gorgeous! I love their expressions. Wonderful detail on the clothes too.
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It's his emotive eyes that give this picture it's essence for me.
It's brilliant as usual.
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Beautiful work, I think it would be better if it stays this way without an elaborate background to distract from the details you put in the characters.
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