Website Update

New art is added to my website.
A quick sketch of Brian de Bois-Guilbert a.k.a. Man in Love from Ivanhoe.

An impressive character, he has.

Russian Ivanhoe Film

I've been rereading  Ivanhoe from the very first chapter and totally enjoying it.

Also, shame I didn't know about this film until recently but anyway I've just watched the Soviet film version of Ivanhoe "The Ballad of the Viliant Knight Ivanhoe (Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго" (1982) for the first time and liked it a lot.
Of course the story is trimmed and modified, and there is even a long sequence (thinking of the entire length of the film) with ... looong eye-contact between Wilfrid and Rowena associated with an almost corny song, where they are not supposed to meet each other in the book.
And I daresay that the sound effect is totally Jim Henson's Labyrinth, e.g. fanfare sound at the lists is out of synthesizer.

But in whole, I liked it very much.
Wish I could understand Russian... or is there any translated version? 

Richard again

I don't know why do I keep posting things regarding Richard I,  but here he is again, a new sketch for the website.

Maybe it's my fault that I chose his nickname (in Ivanhoe) for the website.

I should draw more of King Alfred, and other characters of Ivanhoe.

But I think I want my Twitter account to tweet my renewed love for Ivanhoe. Hah.

Summer Reading

Ivanhoe Reread. O, glorious time.

I even made a bookmark out of my Black Knight pic. Ha ha.

Black Knight (Richard I) in hiding, from Ivanhoe

A quick pic of Richard I as Black Knight or Black Sluggard, in the forest (Ivanhoe,) is added to the website.

The chimneys of Hell/ Black Raven

Meanwhile....
The volcano havoc reminds me of these lines from my beloved "The Marsh King" by C.W.Hodges, the juvenile about Alfred the Great;

It is said that the Devil himself dwells in the north. In the land of Iceland in the northern sea there is a smoking mountain, which is one of the chimneys of Hell.
(Ch.7: To the Threshold)

Migration finished

Finally! I could finish this Blogger Migration thing before Google terminates the FTP service.
I messed up something in the middle and failed to put up the "has moved to" entry properly in the previous address, though.
Oh well.
Anyway, thank you for your patience.