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Published: 2010-03-10 18:59:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 2963; Favourites: 41; Downloads: 0
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For my figure illustration class, one of the large assignments this semester has been illustrating a children's story. For my story, I went for David and Goliath, except setting it in a kind of mythical Bronze-age Northern Europe. This here is the first scene - "Utgartha Challenges the Livonians".Related content
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What university are you attending? It seems to give out very interesting assignments.
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Well, this was just a kid's storybook project that i hijacked into something a bit deeper and textured - but i studied at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary. I've been graduated for a little over a year now, though.
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Well, during this project, I put a good few hours into searching wikipedia for names of mythical scandinavian figures and historical regions in the area - so I think Utgartha is part of a norse giant's name, Gotland is an ancestral germanic island in the baltic, and if I remember, Livonia was somewhere in the territory of the baltic nations...
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I see. It's still a very cool name. The people and their culture certainly seem convincing.
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I do hope you'll be publishing this! I like how you handle your washes. There's a lot to learn here.
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I agree with the previous comment, you make the setting really believable. I like the composition of this one best. Great work.
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I like how fully realized your setting is. Everything looks like it works. I've found a lot of bronze-age recreations are limited by the fact that most of the materials in use, like leather, wood and hides, deteriorate quickly, so all we're left with is a few axe heads and shards of pottery. You've done a great job of filling in the blanks, even though this isn't meant to be a real setting.
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Thanks, Steve. There's the school of scientific thought that any extrapolation from artifacts must be super-conservative, but as you say, that's pretty limiting. Humans have been operating on the same cranial hardware for the past 60,000 years, at least, so I don't think it's too much of a stretch to fill in the gaps using modern and near-past peoples as the models. (Of course, this is just fantasy, but I'd like to try to do more real-life stuff in this vein.)
In that vein, you might like to read "Mind in the Cave", a book on art and consciousness in upper paleolithic man. My girlfriend bought it for me a while ago and I've been obsessing over it ever since. A very, very cool read...
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