Hannibal art!

[motetus]

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

The most excellent 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 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?

Comments

[riventhorn.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I will happily wait four months for this!

I often have that happen with comment fics or fills for kink memes. Suddenly you realize you're on the brink of a 15k+ monster when you thought it was only going to be 2k tops.

[the-little-owl.livejournal.com]

I spent the whole evening on the Hannibal site(s), and found the step-by-step explanation most useful of how the artist coloured the Alpes scene. And the hoot is: the lady, who made this, lives in the neighbour county and teaches workshops in a city which is an hour by car from here. If I hadn't so many plans for this summer already, I'd love to take one of these classes, because so far I don't have a clue how to use watercolours properly - without the plumes and blotches, and I can't think ahead in layers very well. But I love illustrations made with ink and watercolours (or their digital equivalent) for their airiness.

[pronker]

Woohoo, you - I am glad the site dazzled as much as it did me - and 4 months from now, Motetus-Glory Shall Appear!

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I for one am excited about pensive and windswept Luned and Gelert, whenever it should appear!

The wolves staring longingly at cupcakes also capture my interest. How did the wolves stumble upon the cupcakes?

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link to the Hannibal site -- this is relevant to my interests, as they say.

Looking forward to seeing what you end up with for the Comment Fest. Also wolves and cupcakes!

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

...WANT.

Both Hannibal comic and Luned and Gelert. I should go look at the comment fest when I'm not dying of stress...

[fififolle]

Wow, they look like they've been working up to that project practically their whole life! Very nice art :D
It's such a shame that it's so hard to make a good living from art :(
But I'm so glad people like you work at it so hard for recreation(?!) because people like me benefit *g* Good luck with the project!

[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!