So while I was reading I couldn't resist the temptation to illustrate this tiny bit...
This is the main character of the novel, Birdalone. The first pic shows her before the "passing of the year into winter". The second pic... after winter has gone.
So I'm reading a wonderful book called 'The Water of the Wondrous Isles' by William Morris. This is early fantasy, very pastoral and simple... while dark and strange at times. I really like it. It's written in old English, so it's a bit hard and slow to read, but that's also one of the reasons why the book feels like coming from another world, another time, which makes it special and amazing. :) So while I was reading I couldn't resist the temptation to illustrate this tiny bit... This is the main character of the novel, Birdalone. The first pic shows her before the "passing of the year into winter". The second pic... after winter has gone. And now was come the time of wheat-harvest, and Birdalone must wear her days swinking in the acre-land, clad but in smock and shoes; and the toil was hard, and browned her skin and hardened her hands, but it irked her not, for the witch let her work all alone, and it was holiday unto the maiden if her mistress were not anigh, despite those words which had somewhat touched her heart that other day. Now was the winter gone and the spring-tide come again, and with the blossoming of the earth blossomed Birdalone also. Nought sweeter of flesh might she be than erst, but there was now a new majesty grown into her beauty; her limbs were rounded, her body fulfilled, her skin sleeked and whitened.
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I'm a character animator, visual artist, game dev, and music composer. I like to doodle, write, experiment, and plan my next big thing. I love tech that inspires and enables art. I have a formal background in music composition. And I like to walk around the world and see things up close. Archives
September 2021
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