THE SHERIFF AND GUY OF GISBORNE
uh. try to stay with me for a second. so incest motifs are a huge part of medieval lit. you see it in arthuriana cycles, you see it in romances, it's a whole thing.
Incest and the Medieval Imagination, Elizabeth Archibald
so robin hood. both adaptions and the text itself, tend to get interesting with guy of gisborne. and I will say that while I found the media being discussed in this text absolutely fucking insufferable to watch, the discussion on it was delicious, impeccable, show stopping
Mouvance, Greenwood, and Gender in The Adventures of Robin Hood and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Brian J Levy and Lesley Coote
and with regards to discussions on the origin text (which I love and adore forever)
Horseplay: Robin Hood, Guy of Gisborne, and the Neg(oti)ation of the Bestial, Stuart Kane
we're. getting to the point, I promise. guy of gisborne and the sheriff in my own "adaption" are not cousins, but brothers in law (fucked up brothers in law are my thing over on my other blog. brutus and cassius? I'm there. caligula and lepidus? all over that, baby!) because I'm aiming for an adjacent transgression.
on the topic of adjacent transgressions and guy's comment in this comic about cannibalism: there's an overlap in various genres of literature, predominantly in branches of horror and tragedy: between cannibalism and incest. (additionally! a lot of texts will take on christian subtexts and allusions, so there's a bonus homoerotic cannibalism discussion happening wrt communion that I'll get into in the future) it's about. chomping. the teeth, you know.
Managing Monsters, Marina Warner
Statius and Virgil: The Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the Aeneid, Randall T. Ganiban
there's a 100% chance I will revise the sheriff's design at some point, but I wanted to draw the flowers exploding out of the spine so bad
AND FINALLY, the neck focus on guy is half due to his fate in his origin tale (beheaded) and half my own invention: I girl-with-a-green-ribboned him. a little narrative necromancy, if you will.
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imagine reading a novel about the apocalypse and how fiction can save your life in both an ordinary and extraordinary tragedy... and two years later watching the novel wrap up in the middle of a worldwide pandemic ??????????????
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woah. actual thought out reference?
Completely disregard wtf the reference from a couple weeks (a month?) ago looks like. Completely inaccurate. not sure what I was thinking w/ that one. This time I thought this one through, lol. wahoo!! Ive been kind of lazy and totally leaving out features the past few times Ive drawn him and I dont want that to happen again because he loses all the fun features.
notes written out for those who need it (glances behind my shoulder at the mobile app) under the cut. be warned, its long, lol.
starting from the top left, going across to the right side in rows.
-TURN-AROUND
-opt grey hairs/grey stripe. he keeps it evenly colored with car oil.
-eyebrow crease opt.
-head lifted for convenience (for the pose. Also spelt that wrong on the image whoops)
-5" when slouched.
-neutral expression. Teeth always visible.
-eyebags NOT opt. (Except in certain circumstances.)
-"Tail" not usually visible
-HORRIBLE posture*
-black bottom lip pokes out a little
-hands reach knees in reg. posture
-Gnarly mullet
-Overbite
-Constant slouch.
-Warped lens/frame
-Sweaty & jittery a lot
- \___ misc. extremes ___/
-BJD body
-Motherboard cover
-Plush tummy :-)
-wears heart boxers underneath. Not shown.
- |dissociating-----|-------disconnected|
-sensitive eyes w/o glasses. Squints.
- :arrow: Sparratically ejects
-overdramatic
- *except when actively interacting with someone
- 5"1 when standing straight
- |forced--|genuine--|?----|???---|
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