Defend the Throne!

Nov. 29

So, this may be one of the better instances of 'Fan Art' that I produced for a good time. I had at this point realized that I perform better generally when exploring my own incepted thoughts rather than chasing the works of others.

That said. I had been binging pretty hard on swashbuckling-themed material around the time I painted this. I was reading Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers (one of the more enjoyable reads I've ever engaged with), I was watching the Gene Kelly movie like there was no tomorrow, there was a direct line to my veins for the big performative theatrics of Errol Flynn as Robin Hood, and Don Juan. Robert Taylor was living rent-free in my psyche with the rest of these dudes as Lancelot/Ivanhoe fencing his way to romance the skirt off of a certain Queen Guinevere whilst keeping a very ravishing 'Liz Taylor out of some very weird trouble. All these thoughts and ideas were coalescing in my mind when I sat down to watch one of my favorite performances ever: Jose Ferrer as Cyrano de Bergerac literally defeating theatre and the poorly presumptive and preposterously pretentious purveyors of similarly ill-fashioned stage-work at the point of an exquisitely handled sword and carving the single-most impressive moment in film acting upon my heart!

This composition is derived in almost trashy fashion as an amalgam of one of my most favored and enjoyed genres in various media. There's not much too it. There was a simple urge to scrawl out some cool-looking musketeer-ass swashbuckler-style people getting ready to get some work done!

Look at this! There's no context whatsoever for what's happening, there are just a couple of people who are definitely 'cooler than you' posing with weapons drawn and firing by a bridge or aqueduct for some reason that only the viewer can know.

I'm just here for it! Give me some down-cuffs, cloaks, capes and caps with some seriously bird of paradise-esque feathers devoted to the specific stance of styling on the enemy while defending the throne!

And now you're here for it too!