Lady Heroine

~Bad Poetry~Pen Brush Sword~Tributes

Dec. 1

Written By Tiler 'Ti' Bradshaw

Here we have a Lady. A dangerous Lady with friends who need some serious rescuing! This is yet another idea fueled by my enjoyment of books and cinema of the dramatic fencing variety. The plan was to make a more interesting version of 'Defend the Throne!' by way of making the scene carry a sense of movement and story, where something has clearly happened distant in the past, then some reaction to that distant something, now we see an active situation unfurling in the present, and ultimately there will be a final resolution to the scene, at least as we see here before us.

So here we are. I have a danger lady who had discovered that her friends were locked in a dungeon for reasons, then she chose to arm herself with a double-barreled blunderbuss and a rapier and murder her way into that prison, rescuing her friends, and look cool doing it. Not a terrible macro-assessment of the causality behind the scene. I think this image does a healthy job of carrying that conceit with some clarity.

I thought to make sure that she was clearly the source of the mayhem at hand, and that it may be believable she could create such a scene single-handed and with some alacrity. There are two dead soldiers on the stairs, though I hadn't mastered drawing what should be a limp body in perspective, leading to them looking like a mess of awkward brush strokes with weapons drawn, but both dispatched each with a barrel of the gun, no time to reload, but certainly time to rush at the warden with blade extended and some skilled thrusting to keep him off-balance. She is bloodied with spray from the blunderbuss shots, so you know she's a Dangerous Lady Heroine, and I overworked her face, trying to get the mouth/nose forms quite right and then darkening the face unintentionally, being unable to solve it with white ink (because I attacked it too quickly, gotta let the India ink dry before trying anything additive, a lesson I took some more time to learn)

So yeah, enjoy that. Lady Heroine saving the day so her boys can play!