Art: Maidinn [Eagle of the Ninth]

[motetus]

Art for the third round of the ninth_eagle fanmedia challenge! I must admit I was severely lacking in inspiration for this round (I think having lots of Things With Deadlines and panicking about finishing everything in time tends to sap it), hence this extremely uncreative drawing of a post-book, late teenage Cottia... and some pottery. I rather like how the lighting and skin colours came out, but everything below Cottia's neck is more heavily referenced than I prefer, which I thought I should point out before you all admire the pretty lighting on those folds. Ah well, perhaps the final prompts will give me delightfully ridiculous ideas!

Comments

[the-little-owl.livejournal.com]

if you watch historical drama expecting it to be historically accurate, you are always going to be disappointed!

But in Caesar's case, if the drama was historically accurate it would be even more thrilling than the stuff HBO shows us! I'm a bit disappointed, because from my non-fiction books I expected Caesar to be a more witty and spirited person than he's portrayed in the series.
A fictional portrayal of Caesar, which I really like, by the way, is the one in John Maddox Roberts's SPQR detective novels. I wish someone would make a TV series from these books! (But preferrably not HBO with their love for gore, but perhaps the BBC team who produce Sherlock.)