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Sigune
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[2005-07-06 15:41:48 +0000 UTC]
"Sigune"
(Belgium)
# Statistics
Favourites: 1913; Deviations: 373; Watchers: 768
Watching: 210; Pageviews: 88876; Comments Made: 4943; Friends: 210
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Aubrey Beardsley, Vincent Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt, RembrandtFavorite movies: Portrait of a Lady
Favorite TV shows: Kaamelott, Avatar: the Last Airbender
Favorite bands / musical artists: Sinéad O'Connor
Favorite books: Marius the Epicurian, Mademoiselle de Maupin
Favorite writers: Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire
Tools of the Trade: pencils, Staedtler pens, Faber-Castell PITT pens, watercolour
Other Interests: Art, literature (mainly English and French), Victorianism, the Yellow Nineties, fencing
# Comments
Comments: 699
OOOOOOOOOOO gosh I haven't logged in here for ages, and now I find these sweet birthday wishes - I'm almost a month late but THANK YOU 
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Most certainly, friend. Hope you had a nice b-day
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Thank you SO MUCH (and sorry for my late reply! I just haven't been around dA for ages 
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Please allow me to wish you Bon Anniversaire in advance, Dame Sigune; I may not be able to send Best Wishes to you on your Birthday itself owing to work commitments.
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Awww, that's so very kind! I've just wandered in here about a month late, and I feel very spoiled.
Thank you so much for thinking of me!
Maybe I ought to disclose that I am finally getting serious about my webcomic site. (I'm not a Wordpress hero, so I hope I'll be able to get it to post properly - you know, with decent navigation and so on...) The comic should start posting weekly on gawaincomic.com.
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I look forward to seeing still more from your particular take on the Matter of Britain - hopefully we'll get a glimpse of your take on Sir Gareth at some point, but doubtless you'll have many more goodies to work through before you get to my Favourite Orkney!
(One must admit that I was recently struck by the rather amusing thought that Sir Mordred might well look more like his half-brother Sir Gawain than "Lovelyhands" does, given the latter spent an entire year at Camelot without being suspected by anyone but Sir Kay*).
*I wonder if that means anything; could Sir Gareth look something like his Uncle Arthur as a boy, with Sir Kay being almost the only knight in Camelot who knew "Wart" well enough at that age to see something of him in his second-youngest nephew? (or is the old man just Properly Paranoid when it comes to Orkneys?).
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Just popping in to wish you a Very Happy Birthday just a little bit too early.
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Happy birthday to you, and merry Snape drawing! XD
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Thank you!
(I wasn't online on my birthday, too busy cooking for my friends!)
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A very merry unbirthday!
Did you read the Snape inspired prose linked to your piece...?
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The pleasure is mine dear lady! (one hopes that you yourself and your family continue to prosper, by the way?).
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Since I post only sporadically these days I thought it wise to wish you a Happy Birthday just a bit too early rather than risk a failure to congratulate you and wish you many happy returns of the day!
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Hope you have had a chance to read the piece I wrote.
Would you like a link...?
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Aaaaaah thanks so much for the watch! *3*
What an amazing art style you've got!!
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Thank you, good sir! May 2015 bring you joy and good health!
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May you and your family all likewise proposer!
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I hope that you have a marvelous day, an AMAZING birthday and an AWESOME year to come, chock full of everything good! 
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Cake overload!
Thank you very much!
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Think my sisters beautiful don't you? I'd be careful if I were you, especially where dragons tread. Thanks for the fave, Aegon Targaryen.
Please direct your replies, if any, here...
dubugomdori.deviantart.com/art…
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Thanks for the 
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It's wonderful! I love what you do with watercolour 
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Thank you! After years of being terrified by watercolour, it's now one of my favourite media.
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Thank YOU for creating that gorgeous Wolf and sharing him with us XD!
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Ms. Sigune, if I remember correctly you mentioned in one of your replies to my previous comments that you would begin to incorporate more Medieval elements to the predominantly 'Dark Age' aesthetic of the Gawain Project; may I please ask if you will be borrowing specifically from Medieval Wales (that being the closest culture to the Arthurian World left in the Middle Ages, arguably) or would you be employing a more classically High Medieval aesthetic?
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It's still many, many pages away, so it is still very much in the conceptual phase - but I am rather thinking High Medieval, because that aesthetic is more iconic. It is what most people associate with Arthurian legend. Then again, some characters (like Gawain and Kay and Bedwyr) will stick out like sore thumbs (on purpose!) because they will retain some of their 'older' characteristics. In fact, this is also the case in texts like Malory's. You have knights like Gareth and Tristan and Lancelot who are decidedly 'modern' as opposed to Kay and Gawain. Kay loses his magical powers in Malory, but he is not a polished courtier, and Gawain, though villified, retains strange magical properties which are hard to place in the world of the Morte.
But now I'm rather spoiling the story (or rather its background) 
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Quite frankly because I am blessed with a mighty curiosity, which tends to make me something of an affliction to those who dislike incessant queries and questions!
In truth because I am something of an amateur historian and therefore your answer to this question gives me a sneak peek at what we devoted readers may expect from 'The Gawain Project' in future - also did I mention that I am incessantly curious?
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Ms. Sigune, I would just like to take this opportunity to compliment you on producing some of the best Arthurian art I have seen, that neatly manages the tricky feat of balancing what we might call the classic Arthurian spirit with an aesthetic adhering more closely to what we might call The Age of Arthur - the troubled twilight years of Roman Britannia before the Saxons overthrow their rivals.
Might I be so bold as to ask if you have ever read any of the works produced by Mistress Rosemary Sutcliff? (the late, great author of 'Sword at Sunset' one of the best Arthurian novels I have read and many more books quite as good!); I ask in part because of her modest contributions to the great body of Arthurian literature, but also because I think your style of art would compliment her style of fiction as well.
Once again, please accept my compliments because both you and the work that you have produced really do deserve them!
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You are very kind!
I'm afraid I'm really an amateur, and all I have got going for myself is that both meanings of 'amateur' apply to me. If I manage to get my love for this material, these characters and this period across, I can be happy
Rosemary Sutcliff is one of my favourite authors, and has been since I was thirteen or so. When I was a child, I adored her Arthurian trilogy (which was one of the main inspirations of my, um, first Arthurian phase), and Sword at Sunset is definitely one of my absolute favourites as an adult. It's a novel that makes me feel very small indeed when I'm working on my comic
Thank you very much for your kind words! It always warms the heart to hear of someone who likes what you do.
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