Peace and Joy: Somebody Has to Do It

[rowyn]

I like this page, even though it's a duplicate of a gag done over and over again in so many old Warner Bros. cartoons. My favorite part is the *click-clack* noises in the background, so that the reader can hear the guard coming even though the faeries are too busy quarrelling to notice.

I followed jordangreywolf's advice in drawing the Faerie Guard, giving them a bulky silhouette and spiky shoulderpads rather than trying to indicate specific pieces of armor. Seemed to work all right.

It was a little funny the way the "18" blended with the circle-marks on Joy's wing, making this look like page "180".

Comments

[level-head.livejournal.com]

The impression of "different levels" -- that Peace and Joy are more or less hiding at the edge of the platform -- is effectively carried out. It works particularly well in the last image, but this would have been confusing without the setup done in the previous panels. I like it!

It's interesting; the reveal of this guard's helmet continues to lend a sort of simian hairline effect to his countenance.

And I recognize that pike, I think -- wasn't that carried by the Wicked Witch's "Winkie" castle guards? "Yo hee oo -- yeoooooo ho"

Oho! Yes -- here's a picture.

It's an interesting sort of assymetrical doubled-halberd gisarme; I don't know the proper name for it, but I'd wager that someone here does. ];-) Perhaps a hache, a type of polaxe. (Amusingly, the pol in polaxe doesn't mean "pole", it means "skull"; it was a skull-cutter.)

You get a sense from the guard, despite his fearsome weapon and impressive armor, that he is kind-hearted. He's moderately amused at the dicomfiture of the visitors, but he does seem to actually want to help.

And all of that from small smile -- or is that a short chin? ];-) Well, his eyes actually give the game away too.

===|==============/ Level Head

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree, he seems like a helpful sort of chap! Of course dialogue plays a part there. He could have asked, 'What's going on here?' or 'What are you doing here?'

[level-head.livejournal.com]

Or the universal warm greeting among Klingons: "nuqneH" ("What do you want?")

===|==============/ Level Head

[rowyn]

It's his chin; his head is tilted a little forward because he's looking down at the faeries, so his face is supposed to look foreshortened. I didn't mean for thim to look amused so much as professional and polite.

I think of him as accidentally intimidating, here. He's not trying to be threatening, and in fact he's kneeling and holding his polearm to one side, obviously in a position that he couldn't easily attack from. But like most people going through their job routinely, he doesn't really think about how he looks to other people.