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This is me trying to draw my own version of my favourite Delacroix painting, The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan (the subject is from a Byron poem). Delacroix is so hots, there wasn't going to be any beating his original, so I decided to think of it sort of as a cover for something, comic or magazine or whatever.
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Blasted Barnackles!!
I'd love to see what you'd make of The Barque of Dante. Ooh, or the Death of Sardanapalus!
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"Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green, there hath he lain for ages and will lie battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep, until the latter fire shall heat the deep; then once by men and angels to be seen, in roaring he shall rise..."
Besides the gestures and the beautifully drawn horses, I love the colors in the scarf, how it fades from that red to light blue-ish gray.
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The style of this piece reminds me of Charles Vess and Michael W. Kaluta. Lovely work.
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