Illustrator and Art Educator from the Falkland Islands. Obsessed with knights - pictures of knights, tales of knights, what they get up to on the weekends … all of it!
Day 25: The Lady of the Lake
Hey Reader, another female character today. There was a certain mysterious energy I was hoping to capture with this portrait, that I just couldnt get down. Instead, I decided to simplify it, finish the portrait off, and hopefully I’ll have another go at it and nail the feeling I was after. |
Day 25: The Lady of the LakeThe Lady of the Lake hailed from an otherworldly realm, it’s entrance masked with an illusion of a lake. There she raised the orphan Sir Lancelot, as well as Sirs Lionel and Bors, to be the greatest warriors known to man, unmatched in skill, wisdom and courage. She used her command over the occult powers to guide their fate, and manipulate the future of Albion. After sending her adoptive children to Arthur’s court, she still kept a watchful eye over them, gently nudging them along their predestined paths - even engineering the affair between Lancelot and Guinevere, that would finally cause the fall of Camelot.
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Christopher Cant
Illustrator and Art Educator from the Falkland Islands. Obsessed with knights - pictures of knights, tales of knights, what they get up to on the weekends … all of it!
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