Modern medieval art

[Sir Edward]

I've never been very good at drawing people or animals. I'm much better at simple inanimate objects. But every time I look at some of the period artwork in the combat manuscripts, and various scans of other art, including the William Marshal image on the front page of the Order's website, it makes me want to pick up a bunch of colored pencils and take a shot at making that style of drawings.



I don't know if I'd be any good at it, but I think it would be fun.

Has anyone here attempted to make medieval-styled artwork?

[Sir William]

Well, I used to draw knights in armor (mostly mail, based off of drawings in Bulfinch's mythology), in duel, on horseback on occasion, but nothing approaching that if only because the position of the body seems strange to me.  Its almost as if his opponent tried NOT to match him but William decided he needed to go down anyway.  My kind of guy!

I plan on drawing up what I think a joust melee might have looked like eventually...I'm interested to see what you come up with.

[Sir Rodney]

I have no artistic ability whatsoever with the pen or brush.   Many members of the SCA do practice medieval scribal arts.  I was very fortunate to have a friend create the scroll recording my Award of Arms for Armouring many years ago. 

[Sir Wolf]

i don't have any scanners so how else would i get pics online? maybe take a picture of them.

[Sir Edward]

I have no artistic ability whatsoever with the pen or brush.   Many members of the SCA do practice medieval scribal arts.  I was very fortunate to have a friend create the scroll recording my Award of Arms for Armouring many years ago. 

Very nicely done. Even the calligraphy looks great.

i don't have any scanners so how else would i get pics online? maybe take a picture of them.

A scanner is ideal, but that should work too.

[Das Bill]

Jess Finley wrote me an awesome "thank you" card once that she illustrated with drawings in the same style as 15th century fencing manuscripts. It was awesome, and looked like it came right out of the pages of Peter Falkner.

[Sir Edward]

Jess Finley wrote me an awesome "thank you" card once that she illustrated with drawings in the same style as 15th century fencing manuscripts. It was awesome, and looked like it came right out of the pages of Peter Falkner.

That's cool, did you save it? I'd love to see it. That's exactly the sort of thing I think would be cool to do.

Of course, I'd be tempted to add some anachronisms. Imagine a fechtbuch with depictions of combat, horses, and all the rest that's normal. And then it shows the cars parked nearby, and someone using a cellphone.

[Sir James A]

And then it shows the cars parked nearby, and someone using a cellphone.

I can't find the captioned one, but someone took this image



and had something like "Harld dead. Henry 2 b king soon. Home 4 dinner."


I used to print out the "measurement" line drawing from some of the armor stores online and try to draw armor over it, since I'm horrible with drawing things to remotely proper scale. Never did very well with it.

I have LOTS of drawings of castles, though. Almost all from an architectural standpoint. Before the cats godzilla'd it many years ago, I had a paper 3d model of a castle I printed out and assembled, about 2' x 3', complete with towers and a gatehouse. From a few feet away, it looked really sturdy.

[Sir Edward]

Yeah, that's a great photo. I've seen it captioned a couple of different ways now. But it's really hard to google for.

The paper model sounds pretty cool. I made a cardboard castle, designed to be modular for table-top gaming (Warhammer games). I'm probably going to ditch it soon, since it's just been taking up closet space for the last 20 years. It's sturdy, but isn't pretty.

[Sir Wolf]

is that the one that was on the TV set? it was cool. it really sucks to grow up hehehe

[Sir Edward]

is that the one that was on the TV set? it was cool. it really sucks to grow up hehehe

Yep, I had it on top of the TV for a couple of years. It just barely fit. It was something like 42"x22" when laid out into one big rectangle.