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#and in the corner of every page is a hurried draft of merlin to check proportions
lit-in-thy-heart · 3 years
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lancelot falls in love with basically everyone so i don't think it's totally implausible that he paints to capture their beauty as best as he can
#this is a headcanon that is close to my heart for some reason#just the image of lance in the woods on a sunny day and painting the flowers#he tentatively starts experimenting with portraits by using merlin as a subject over and over#him sat by the window with the sunlight falling on his face or sitting outside with grass in his hair (courtesy of gwaine)#or laughing at something gwen has said (merlin's smile is something that lancelot can instantly recall from memory)#and as he improves he shyly starts doing more when he thinks people don't notice#charcoal sketches of the knights around the fire#soft watercolours of gwen arranging a bouquet of flowers for arthur#and in the corner of every page is a hurried draft of merlin to check proportions#because there is one piece of merlin draped across the wall of the battlements at sunset that lance is truly happy with#and he uses that as a reference for his other pieces until he's confident enough to do it without first sketching merlin#he never does complete a piece without merlin in the corner#after he dies merlin keeps the book of lance's work under his bed and never tells anyone because they hadn't noticed then#so why would they care now#gwen finds it after waking up in merlin's bed after the whole ghost uther thing (she dropped something and saw the book under the bed)#arthur comes in to find her crying because she recognises the writing at the top of each piece#they get shared around the knights after merlin gives permission and eventually they're displayed in the castle#merlin can never walk through that corridor without droppinh his gaze#lancelot#merlin#bbc merlin#merlin headcanons
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