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(the one with the elephants and the disagreements with Romans, not the one who likes to eat people)

The most excellent [livejournal.com profile] pronker alerted me to this and I figured it may also be of interest to one or two of you: Darkness Over Cannae, which looks like what will eventually be a heavily illustrated novel about Hannibal and the Battle of Cannae and oh my god, where do I send every penny I have in return for a copy? The art is incredible and has all the things I love - there are battles and elephants and Alpine crossings and angry Roman senators and damn, Hannibal looks pretty dashing. You can also find a few more sketches on her main art blog, including the most adorable earlier version of Hannibal. I do not care if the writing ends up being the worst ever (although I very much hope it won't be!), I just want all the gorgeous historical art, yes please.


In my own arting news, I have decided to ignore all the wookies, dinosaurs, fluffy domestic nudity, and wolves staring longingly at cupcakes in my WIP folder for a few minutes while I whip up a quick thing of The Shining Company's Luned and Gelert looking pensive and windswept for [livejournal.com profile] riventhorn's Sutcliff Comment Fest... except whoops, this isn't looking like a quick thing at all. Well done, self! Yet again you are demonstrating why it's a really good thing that you went into science instead of trying to pay for food and the mortgage with art. Expect something for the fest in... oh, maybe about 4 months if I work hard?

Date: 2014-03-19 10:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weekend.livejournal.com
Thanks for the link to the Hannibal site -- I know the artist from the Silmarillion fandom, and her work is gorgeous. And I love that Hannibal is so much one of her passions that she has a jar of dust from the battlefield of Cannae!

Date: 2014-03-21 04:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] motetus.livejournal.com
Yeah, I've come across this artist before and I'm astounded by her skill with watercolours, especially when my watercolour attempts always end in disaster and on one occasion, mistaking my mug of mug of dirty paint water for my mug of tea. I can't wait for this project to be completed so I can ogle all the hot Carthaginians...
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