October sketch of the day #5
I’ve really been in a mood to get Felix into a fight lately….
Click image to see larger. I’ll probably scrap this Felix drawing and come up with another one for what I’d planned to do with this. (I was thinking bookmark. I’m very fond of bookmarks these days. They make nice mini-art prints. Also, can mark books.) Someone might look at how his sword is hanging from the belt (not a conventional/proper placement for it, which I knew when I put it there) and think I didn’t know any better. By “scrap,” I mean I’d just set it aside. I’m not planning to burn it or anything 🙂
Here’s yesterday’s again, inked version. I’m thinking of creating a bunch of bookmarks I could include in a Kickstarter to print chapters I-IV:
Cute! What is it about “cute girl in men’s outfit” that says “adorable” when “cute guy in women’s clothes” says “screaming queen”..?
Whatever; this one is made of awesome. Make it into a bookmark and I’ll send you some sesterces for it!
Also, re: the whole “sword belt” thing…as a former GI the “official” gladius suspension on the belt always looked ridiculously impractical to me. Hard to draw, ridiculously uncomfortable – either the pommel is poking you in the gut or the tip of the scabbard in the thigh (if you’re lucky and not freakishly well-endowed…). It would not have surprised me at all if an experienced miles gregerii wouldn’t have modified the issue scabbard to make it less inconvenient…
And now that I think about it, Felix was a signifer, which made him a duplicarius, a “double-pay man” or the equivalent of a sergeant; even more likely, then, that he’d modify his kit to make it more practical…