Thursday, September 01, 2005
Notes: These Charming Men...
Here's what he sent me:
"At a critical point in the battle, Colonel Wagstaffe made the fatal error of launching a charm offensive"
A group of well dressed dandys carrying gifts, holding out their hands to be
shaken etc etc, walking into the middle of a battle field with a bunch of
barbarian/savages ala Braveheart of Zulu. Maybe have Colonel Wagstaffe in
the foreground cheering them on.
I'm just not up to that kind of challenge, I'm afraid.
As you can see, I didn't follow his instruction exactly... and I cunningly suggested the speech balloons in order to make my life easier. Of course, I didn't tell Bif that was the reason...
Although I did everything I could to make my life easier, it still remained a damn tricky one to draw. Plus Flash crashed on me at one point when I was nearly finished the initial colouring and it mucked up a load of stuff when I re-opened the file. I nearly cried at that point... but it all worked out in the end.
Despite Bif's insistence that it was a la Braveheart or Zulu, I immediately pictured this with Indians. Native American Indians that is. Dunnoe why... maybe the word 'dandy' made me think of westerns for some reason.
I loosely based the dandies on an image of two dandies I found through google, and the Colonel I based on a real colonel called Colonel Elias Piessner. I didn't do any research to see if any of these people were from the same periods, or if they would have been encountering Indians... nor did I check if Indians would have had both mohicans and long hair! The indians I did a few google searches for two, but mostly they came out of my head from old stereotyping cowboy films.
After all my hard work, I hope people get it - I mean, I had to look up 'charm offensive' to make sure it meant what I thought it meant!
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