#....guienevere??

[sonayesul]

Junior Thesis

some stuff I worked on for my junior thesis project earlier this year. Ill share the full finished comic later on but for now enjoy these character designs and such 🫶

the watercolor version of the cover looked too much like bradley james when that was like, not the point of the assignment, which is why the finished digital version looks so much different. I still prefer the original watercolor version but i tend to always favour my watercolor versions of things

In depth explanation below cut

the junior thesis assignment was the adapt a book into a six page comic and we could have creative freedom with certain things and the book only ever mentioned the color of guenever's hair and eyes, NOT her skin color or features and so I had my fun with her design. the ONLY description they give lancelot in the entire book is that hes ugly and beauty is subjective so i gave him "non traditional" features. In one of my original sketches for him, he was going to have crooked teeth, but unfortunately i do not draw teeth well LMAO. I wanted Arthur and Lancelot's designs to contrast each other as well. Arthur is shorter and stockier where Lance is taller and thinner, Arthur keeps his feelings quiet while Lance wears them on his chest, and then i wanted there to be the stark color difference too between them.

Morgause and Mordred were fun, but they both had a lot more descriptive descriptions in the book, so I didn't get as much creative control outside of their outfits. I assigned the Lot family the color blue and the Camelot cotizens red to try and contrast better throughout the story and it was kinda fun cause it made mordred look like an ice prince or something.

also despite gwen lance and arthur being around the same age at the point of my comic, i wanted to try and make arthur look the oldest, sort of visually show how much being king and his decisions has weighed on him, especially since the scene I adapted was pretty heavy.

also i did have a reference page for gwen but at some point it got deleted? so in this its just a fun drawing I did of her holding excalibur instead. I do also have a full reference drawing for exacalibur in my files that was useless because i never ended up drawing it in the comic LMAO

the last photo is the cornwall sisters, Elaine, Morgan and Morgause. With their designs i had fun trying to make them look related to each other, to Arthur and their parents but also try to not make them all have the same face. Elaine looks like her mother, Morgan looks like her father, Morgause looks like a mix of both (Uthers hair color but Ygraine's hair style, Uther's face but Ygraine's eye color) and Arthur looks like a perfect blend of both too. I sort of did the same with Mordred where I took features from both morgause and arthur to make him look related but like his own person. Ygraine and Uther are only in one panel so there's no proper ref for either of them.

This project was a five month process, six if you count writing the script to fit within a six page comic without losing any details from the book and creating my pitch for my professor (all of which was done over winter break)

The project took FOREVER and I definitely am not happy with the final result but its due to the fact i had frequent doctor visits and hospitalisations and wasnt able to work on it as much as I had wanted, PLUS i had an eight page comic for another class i worked on also over the same five months (and i was more focused on that one as it was my own original characters)4

regardless though, i do still like it, just wish it cane out better in the end lmao

will prolly post the full comic in a day or two :3

[papcrrings-arch]

Closed Starter : Guinevere & Jenny ( @lcveliess )

"What do you mean?" Gwen asked, "I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're trying to say. Could you elaorate?"

[enigmaticemperor]

Getting a lot of BBC's Merlin posts on my dash today and I'm absolutely loving it!!

[ruinedsoulsrp]

⭐️ Brock and Guin

For Each  “⭐️” I Get, I'll Write A Headcannon About Our Muses.

⭐️ Brock has been putting the moves on Guin for a while, and she didn't instantly swoon for him like he's become so accustomed to. He found out from her friends that a big part of that was his reputation, and while he doesn't necessarily plan on changing his ways, he still wants a chance with her. He learned from their mutual friends that she planned on getting him something for his birthday, so before she could, he asked to take her out to drinks for his birthday instead so that she felt like she couldn't turn him down yet again.

[skaruresonic]

On top of SatBK not being 1:1 with French Vulgate Arthuriana, I think the game has more decorum than to imply Lancelot will cuck Sonic. Plus, simple logic forbids it. If Sonic is Arthur, and Sonic left........... there is no king for Lancelot to cuck.

The French romances have some really fucked-up stuff in them, and although it is funny to think about said fucked-up stuff happening to colorful three-foot tall anthros, I don't think it should be taken this literally? Galahad's conception, for instance, would be considered rape by deception today.

In the French Vulgate, yes, the Battle of Camlan (in Welsh, it's spelled with one N) was largely the result of interpersonal strife. Agravaine and Mordred shoved Guinevere's adultery in Arthur's face, forcing him to punish her. Mordred further made power plays through treachery, coercion, and deceit, pitting Gawain and Lancelot against one another and lying about Lancelot and Arthur's deaths.

The narrative focus on chickens coming home to roost reflects the French romances' Christian notions of sin. Arthur tried to destroy the evidence of his incest, therefore it comes back to bite him in the ass much later on when Mordred snatches the throne. Guinevere pays for her adultery by being burned at the stake. So on and so forth.

However, Welsh sources are more concerned with Camlan's material causes, which may have reflected some version of a historical memory.

Just as volcano activity is speculated to have served as inspiration for the prophecy of Ragnarök, it could be inferred that the dramatic global climate change incurred by the massive volcanic eruption in 536 AD could have informed the cause of the Battle of Camlan according to the Welsh Triads.

In another Triad, we hear how Mordred showed up at Arthur’s court in Celli Wig in Cornwall, ate all of Arthur’s food, drank all of his wine, and dragged Guienevere off her throne and beat her. Arthur repaied Mordred’s insult by visiting his court and similarly taking all the food and mead.

1.) The dates align. The Annales Cambriae give 537 AD as the year in which the battle occurred, whereas the volcanic eruption occurred in the previous year. An apocalyptic year's worth of famine and gloom (the sun was said to have an eerie, bluish glow) would have deeply impacted the ancient psyche, causing the conditions necessary for war. 2.) Plague often follows famine, which would also track with the Annales Cambriae's claim that "there was plague in Ireland and Britain" following "Arthur and Medraut fell."

3.) Devoid of context, eating all of the food in the king's court and subsequently repaying your enemy the same favor seem like cartoonish things to do... unless that was the only food you had left.

[nazariolahela]

Will you be playing Blades 2?

I’m not sure. I haven't played any Choices books since Guienevere ended. I don't even have the app on my phone or iPad anymore. 🥴 I’ll probably re-install it when Cursed Heart 2 drops though.

[lesbiancosimaniehaus]

Also costume design nom for Leopoldstadt!! And for Camelot!!!!! Those dresses Guienevere wears are so gorgeous

[ragnars-tooth]

[ID: Lucy is an older teenager with a ginger mullet. She sits at her laptop with a small green dragon. The dragon’s tail is plugged into the computer like a USB. Lucy says “Yess, #women in stem vibes”. End ID.]

Maybe I’ll re-edit this or upload it again with some more lucy doodles but i just really liked this one

[zathra]

there's a female knight on the guienevere cover so i assume lancelot is going to be gender customizable?? that could be a really fun twist if done right!!

[troldrik]

the bbc merlin fandom just calling Gwen ‘gwen’ bc they cant spell guenewere

[dt75artblog]

Commission for @cormartur of Guinevere and Melady!

[drachmanspy]

Soooo...am I the only one who actually liked Beck???

[marvelandsupernaturalarelovers]

Well, I finished Merlin and it was awesome. One of the few series that I would love to watch again and again. It’s funny and heartbreaking (at the end). It’s everything that I love in a movie or a show. Though I would’ve loved for Arthur to know better all the times Merlin saved his ass through magic.

[89ravenwolf]

Inktober is almost over! Here are the pieces from week three of my month-long journey drawing awesome fictional female characters, with this week’s theme being: ladies from literature.

[just-lily-sunder-blog]

this video just does a perfect job of describing their friendship, and just everything that happens in the show overall. the FEELS.

[thetorrentrefugee]

لا تظن الهدوء الذي تراه في الوجوه يدل على الرضا .. لكل إنسان شيء في داخله يهزهُ ويعذبه Don’t mistake the calmness you see on faces for satisfaction; inside every human, there is a thing torturing him.

- Abdulrahman Munif (1933 - 2004) - A novelist born to a Saudi father & Iraqi Mother & brought up in Jordan.. best known for his trilogy “Cities of Salt” (via warag-3nb)

Guinevere Van Seenus in ‘Dreaming of Another World’ photographed by Tim Walker. 

Vogue Italia March 2011. Filmed by Guy Stephens.