#arthurian

[plannette-drawz]

King Uther and Merlin for prompt five :P

[ambrosiusmerlinus]

Proper post for this Lancelot illustration, from the beginning of the Merveilles de Rigomer (The Marvels of Rigomer, 13th c.) where Lancelot's armor and horse are taken by bandits and he wanders away angrily, pulling out a fence's wooden post as a makeshift weapon.

"He implores God to destroy them and cast them in hell. But he stops himself : I should not talk that way. Cursing is a lousy vengeance. God preserves them, until the day I shall take revenge properly."

Found that a pretty badass line. (He avenges himself later)

In the original he can keep his clothes, but I felt a nuder Lancelot fitted better. The armor is a wider theme in this novel, where people are scared of Lancelot because he stays in armor, and the like.

There are a lot of arthurian illustrations that I think I never posted here or cleaned, and a few in the works also. I should work on putting them all in one place with a blurb explaining them.

[mortiscausa]

Whether fate be foul or fair, Why falter I or fear? What should man do but dare?

march to camelot #1: quest

[illustratus]

La Belle Dame sans Merci by Paul Julien Meylan

[dulla-nyan]

Illustrations done for High Noon Over Camelot, my favorite of the mechanisms albums <3

I didn't realize the hubris of combining all the different elements in the album visually until I was halfway through the process but it was worth it in the end ^-^'

[eirene]

The Temptation of Sir Percival, 1894

Arthur Hacker

[michaeladrianwright]

A knight and friends.

[rosieandthemoon]

fading into fantasy

[escespace]

Gwaine: Man, I'm fed up with these two, we have to do something.

Elyan: What are you talking about?

Gwaine: Arthur and Merlin and their stupid desperate flirting

Elyan: What? Flirting?

Gwaine: Are you blind?!!! Of course they flirt. If not, what would you call that?

Gwaine: *turns elyan's face to where Merlin and Arthur are being separated by Lance and Leon while they yell at each other*

Elyan: Social incompetence?

[toadlett]

next in @mortiscausa 's Road to Camelot challenge is Ruin!

[invisible-goats]

Just to say Ynys Môn, my book about Arthurian/Mabinogi characters reincarnated on modern-day Anglesey by an immortal Myrddin as a bunch of somewhat aimless 18 year olds, is now available a bunch of non-Amazon places! Thanks Draft2Digital! (It's also still available as a physical book on Amazon, though the price has changed because otherwise there would be basically no royalties). Publishing through them also means you can request your local bookshop or library stock it

For those who are interested in that sort of thing, the main trio are all some flavour of queer (bi, nonbinary, aro)

[fuckyeaharthuriana]

Arthur's different genealogies from the book "Heroes of the Round Table" by Mike Dixon-Kennedy.

[ambrosiusmerlinus]

In La Mort le Roi Artu (The Death of King Arthur, c. 1220), when Lancelot and Guinevere are caught in the act they are actually around fifty and their relationship has lasted for 20-30 years.

Wanted to do a few illustrations that try to capture that dimension because adaptations tend to have them very young.

(In the text, Guinevere is explicitely past fifty, Lancelot is a bit younger, and the chronology is not always coherent but Gawain is 76 and Arthur is 92)

[perplexingly]

I barely remember any of the Vulgate cycle so I checked some chapters about Galehaut and by god I forgot that it was written Like That

Galehaut, trying to convince Lancelot (in disguise) to stay with him Forever, soon after meeting him:

Lancelot promised he'd stay only if Galehaut (who at the time was battling Arthur, and was very much victorious) withdrew his army, to which Galehaut's entire attitude was like: "this pains me not at all, since it is your wish". Lancelot's reaction to this:

Galehaut planning to keep Lancelot aaaall to himself:

Galehaut answering to the question what would he do to keep Lancelot's company forever:

Galehaut's grieving out of love for Lancelot:

Lancelot and Galehaut so worried about each other they're afraid to do anything not to hurt the other (and in the second screenshot both of them almost die because they're so worried)

Lancelot and Galehaut's Romeo and Juliet-like ending:

[illustratus]

Awaiting his return by William Henry Margetson