Tags: suikoden fan art
Published : 8 months, 1 week ago (Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:13:25 PDT) Searched: suikoden http://firstgold.livejournal.com/399263.html 0 links Related posts
So after I saw Hamlet at the Stratford Festival this year, I may have gotten the idea for a bit of Suikoden fan art, with Odessa as Ophelia.
I've had the line art done for awhile. I cannot, however, find my pencil crayons, which saddens me since that is my favourite medium to work in. I had to resort to markers instead, and I am not very happy with how it turned out. When I do find my pencil crayons, I am going to redo this piece.
The particular inspiration came from the following lines said by Gertrude in Act IV, Scene VII:
When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook; her clothes spread wide, And mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up, Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds, As one incapable of her own distress, Or like a creature native and endewed Unto that element, but long it could not be Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death.
The title of the piece comes from Laertes' response:
Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears; but yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds; Let shame say what it will, when these are gone, The woman will be out. Adieu, my Lord; I have a speech o' fire that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it.

Medium: Crayola markers with Photoshop for the blur effect.
Yes, I did cross Hamlet with a video game. I am awesome.
Speaking of video games, karthur and middletails have started a new RPG - tramonto_rp. It is multi-fandom and takes place on a cruiseship. What could be wrong with that? |