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Submission for Contest 23 at

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is set in 1482. The idea of making a piece set in a medieval book came to me last week (if I had more time, I would use water colors instead, but this came out ok I guess )

The font is called Hybrida, or by a cruder name, bastarda.The earliest bastarda was produced by Gutenberg in 1454/1455, and given how prominent Gutenberg is in the book, I thought the font would be appropriate. [link]

The lyrics are of course from The Bells of Notre Dame. The missing part about fisherman and baker is deliberate, cos I decided it would be too long for the layout.

Inking the lyrics took much longer than I expected (why does 'a' have a random appendix???) but I had fun.

As for the characters:

Archdeacon: I put him in the more common cassock compared to the vestment the Disney design gave him.
Quasimodo and Phoebus: I kept their designs since they are pretty close to the style back then anyway (or maybe I was lazy, hm).
Frollo: I looked at men's fashion back then ([link] ). As you can see from the link, older men were recorded to wear houppelande long, either calf or ankle length. In the end, I decided to follow the 1939 movie version as it is very close to the stuff I read and pictures I saw of men depicted in the 15th century.
Clopin and Esmeralda: I found this pretty interesting collection of paintings of gypsies in the 15th and 16th century. [link] The clothes were plain as you can see.
In the end, given that Clopin's Disney design is like that of a jester, I gave him a similar jester costume.
As for Esme, I went back to the source material, aka Victor Hugo's book:"She wore a golden bodice tightly laced about her delicate body, exposing her beautiful shoulders. Below her wasp waist billowed a multicolored skirt, which, in the whirling dance, gave mementary glimpses of her finely shaped legs." I also based her pose on this well-known drawing of Esme. [link]

Hope y'all like it!

Description
Submission for Contest 23 at

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is set in 1482. The idea of making a piece set in a medieval book came to me last week (if I had more time, I would use water colors instead, but this came out ok I guess )

The font is called Hybrida, or by a cruder name, bastarda.The earliest bastarda was produced by Gutenberg in 1454/1455, and given how prominent Gutenberg is in the book, I thought the font would be appropriate. [link]

The lyrics are of course from The Bells of Notre Dame. The missing part about fisherman and baker is deliberate, cos I decided it would be too long for the layout.

Inking the lyrics took much longer than I expected (why does 'a' have a random appendix???) but I had fun.

As for the characters:

Archdeacon: I put him in the more common cassock compared to the vestment the Disney design gave him.
Quasimodo and Phoebus: I kept their designs since they are pretty close to the style back then anyway (or maybe I was lazy, hm).
Frollo: I looked at men's fashion back then ([link] ). As you can see from the link, older men were recorded to wear houppelande long, either calf or ankle length. In the end, I decided to follow the 1939 movie version as it is very close to the stuff I read and pictures I saw of men depicted in the 15th century.
Clopin and Esmeralda: I found this pretty interesting collection of paintings of gypsies in the 15th and 16th century. [link] The clothes were plain as you can see.
In the end, given that Clopin's Disney design is like that of a jester, I gave him a similar jester costume.
As for Esme, I went back to the source material, aka Victor Hugo's book:"She wore a golden bodice tightly laced about her delicate body, exposing her beautiful shoulders. Below her wasp waist billowed a multicolored skirt, which, in the whirling dance, gave mementary glimpses of her finely shaped legs." I also based her pose on this well-known drawing of Esme. [link]

Hope y'all like it!