Happy birthday King Richard II! Richard was born on this day (6th January) in 1367. He already had an elder brother, but the death of little Edward in infancy, along with the death of Richard’s father the Black Prince, meant that Richard became King of England when he was just a child, on the death of his father King Edward III.
Winter is coming… And with it, Christmas! Clare,Ellyce,Lo,StephieandTam have clubbed together this holiday season to bring you a very Game of Thrones christmas. Every day, we’ll post a special ASOIAF Christmas gift right here from each of us. We hope you have a wonderful holiday season, and that you have as much fun with the calendar as we did making it! :) Please make sure to follow so you don’t miss a day!
My mind started working again this time with something to do with Isabel Neville, so I couldn’t help but put this idea into practice. The first time I knew nothing more than how I would like this costume to look, but as its design got a clearer contour, I thought of giving it a context. The year in which I think she could start with such a costume would be 1469, more precisely the Christmas festivities at the court of Edward IV.
Given the tension caused by the rebellion and the relationship between her father, the Earl of Warwick, her new husband, George of Clarence, and their King, Edward IV, Isabel could have been a little overwhelmed. She is quite young and a new royal duchess after her marriage to George, so I wished that, despite the circumstances of which she is a part, she would simply be brilliant!
I am just trying to represent the moment when Elizabeth Woodville appears in Reading to be presented as the queen and apart from the fact that this horse has squeezed half of my life (I don’t like to draw horses in particular), I can say that it is one of my favorite frames from the whole story! Elizabeth’s current design was entirely inspired by this illustration, which, by the way, I love so much !!
Well, that being said, let’s get back to work! The comic won’t finish by itself! (God, I need a break.)
Let’s take a look a the English king everyone forgets Shakespeare wrote a play about: King John!
Confession: I drew this because I just finished reading yet another popular history of the early Plantagenet kings. I will never forgive Shakespeare for not writing a play about Henry II, although The Lion in Winter more than makes up for it.
