Some floating Squires Tales heads. What lovely characters :3 (Gareth, Gawain, Gaheris, Lynet, Terence, and Eileen because I finished rereading Savage Damsel last week)
New version, with a charcoal base and some added reds.
I don’t remember when I decided that Gaheris had a red beard, but there you go: he has a red beard. That *might* be why he is Gawain’s favourite brother.
Five Orkney Brothers, from left to right: Gareth, Gaheris, Gawain, Agravain, Mordred.
Im drawing.. knights for inktober. I forget the first three days though… this got fucked up while I was scanning it with my camera BUT. here’s sir gareth of orkney
I have a lot of arthurian art but i never posted it, and its all like 2 years old now so i probably never will, but i was in the mood to draw my designs out of the blue recently and tadaaa it here
Arthurian Characters’ Posters: The Family of Orkney: Morgause, Gawain, Agravaine, Gaheris, Gareth, Mordred, Clarissant, Soredamor
Explanation: meanwhile Gawain, Agravaine, Gaheris, Gareth and Mordred are always reported such as children of Queen Morgause of Orkney (even if the names of Gaheris and Gareth are reported in their English form only in Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur), Clarissant and Soredamor appeared only in few versions. Clarissant appeared in Chretien de Troyes’ Perceval ou Le cont duGraal, and Soredamor in another work of Chretien de Troyes, a poem entitled Cliges. (Soredamor, according with this poem, means “fair by love”, where “fair” stayed for an ancient French adjective that indicated blonde or red hair, so my translation is terribly inaccurate, sorry). Sometimes Chretien de Troyes described Agravaine as “proud” and Clarissant as “wise”, but these adjectives aren’t their nickname. On the other side, according to Malory, “The Maiden’s Knight” is a sort of “title” for Gawain, and so “the Kitchen’s Knight” for Gareth.
Arthurian Legends 