3276 Portrait Of Oh Yeah
on November 8, 2019
Chapter: Prophecy Fulfilled
Characters: Alanna of Drostardy, Clover Firelight, King Eric I of Drostardy, King Eric III of Drostardy, Prince Eric IV "The Short"
Location: Drostardy Manor
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You are NOT HELPING, Alanna.
(Okay, maybe you’re helping.)
A proper portrait artist simply sketches the pose, and then the one getting the painting goes away while they finish it
This ‘artist’ is clearly a pretentious hack who probably was doing paint-by-numbers (of sheep in a snowstorm) last week
I laughed much harder than I probably should have at this analogy.
Thank you, I needed that.
Glad it made someone laugh, and in a good way 😀
We don’t know how long that posing lasted. Even the sketching takes some time, doesn’t it?
Remember that the portrait WAS eventually finished. If the artist would be THAT bad, they would execute him and try again.
Nah, the sketching doesn’t take that long, the artist uses it to get the general pose, kinda like what Rich does, this guy seems to be doing the full painting in one go
You missed the artist says SESSIONS, meaning this painting is taking more than one session. Which was common practise for royal portraits in medieval times.
While the sketch might take a short time, the artist would still require the subject to pose so the lighting was consistent, the colours were correct, the painting actually looked like the subject…
Yes, but the only session the sitter (or stander in this case) needs to attend is the initial one, and generally fairly quick
Don’t need the subject to remain for the rest, except maybe for the final facial details, someone else could ‘stand-in’ wearing the same clothes in needs-be
Next panel (page), Eric screeches to a halt, turns to the painter: "What did you just say?"
Well, maybe the painter was an uncle of his? Familial ties could excuse the dropping of protocol.
I forget: is Alanna Eric I’s sister, some other blood relative, or his wife?
I would say sister by what she is doing 😛 but it could be his wife too
We saw her last time ten years ago. On board.
I am fairly she is his wife from reading various comments of the last two installments. The behavior is certainly juvenile 🙂 may be they are just married?
Well, it looks like they both used to hang out with a sky-ship crew of adventurers, and they seem to be fairly young here, so them both being a bit wild and fun-loving isn’t that remarkable. The painting could even have been done when they were only engaged.
Doesn’t rule out her being his sister first, or second cousin
The answer is here https://yafgc.net/comic/3274-sad-and-not-so-sad-history/#comment-36128
Ah yes… sister or wife?? I can see the confusion and once again you don’t have enough background info to connect the dots.
So Eric (I) and Alanna were betrothed when they were both small children. But Alanna was somewhat lower bred than Eric so Eric’s parents (The Duke and Duchess of Drostardy -it wasn’t a Kingdom yet) took her in to teach her the ways of upper nobility.
Eric and Alanna were raised rather like siblings but knowing the whole time that they would one day be married. So there’s a whole history of them playing together, scrapping, squabbling, teasing, misunderstanding, reconnecting, swallowing of pride, etc. They were married shortly before their adventure (The Quest for the 13 – the defeat of the evil god Abynn) and had finally fallen in proper love.
But Eric I was taken away from her by the end of it.
Ah, thanks for explaining!
I like this story. ^_^ Sounds like they had a sound basis for a good relationship, and their interaction here looks fun.
They are lucky Westermarck effect didn’t kicked in. Although, they probably wasn’t THAT young, were they?
So liking curly haired brunettes is a family tradition?
2nd panel, did you per chance mean "think" instead of "this"?
Online Etymology Dictionary, "this":
Old English þis, neuter demonstrative pronoun and adjective (masc. þes, fem. þeos), probably from a North Sea Germanic pronoun *tha-si-, formed by combining the base *þa- (see that) with -s, which is probably identical with Old English se "the" (representing here "a specific thing"), or with Old English seo, imperative of see (v.) "to behold."
So it’s an ancient usage (mostly 6th Age, out of use by the 9th) which, very loosely, asks, "Do you *behold* he’s Eric," suggesting a form of belief that is both instantaneous and awestruck.
… Nah, it’s probably a muscle error.
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I like your first explanation better. But yeah, muscle memory when typing quickly.
Happens to me all the time: brain says "this is what I want to say", fingers go "nope, we’ve got this" and type something else
Shouldn’t they be more worried about WHY he is back? You know, what with the prophecy and all.
Don’t believe they have gotten over the shock to even remember the prophecy
Or, they don’t want to give him the bad news just yet, let him adjust to being back first, learn a little familial history, win over the granddaughter-in-law, that sort of thing 🙂
He had a chequered past by the looks of it 😛
Not chequered, harlequin (let’s hope he never ran into a deranged jester, or a freak who thought they were a giant flying mammal… he probably knew The Fox though)
Okay, seem to have been confused as to how the traditional harlequin was portrayed 🙁
Chequered still doesn’t seem to fit though, not enough squares
He and Elzear’bith are gonna get along like a house on fire, then.
(You know, screaming, crashing timbers, horrible scars…)
We still don’t know what happened to her, she, and Drow-cups, were last seen standing over Arachne’s body