This illustration depicts the funeral of the god Baldr, the second son of Odin. In the Norse Mythology, Baldr is the only Gods who has been killed and his death is seen as the first in the chain of events which will ultimately lead to the destruction of the gods at Ragnarok. In the Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson, he is described as: He is the wisest of the Æsir, and the fairest-spoken and most gracious; and that quality attends him, that none may gainsay his judgments. He dwells in the place called Breidablik, which is in heaven; in that place may nothing unclean be It is told in Snorri Sturluson's Gylfaginning that at Baldr's funeral his wife Nanna died of grief and was placed alongside him on his pyre, thus joining her husband in Hel. Hringhorni, Baldr's ship, was the largest of all such vessels and was to serve as the god's funeral ship. The Æsir took the body of Baldr and brought it to the sea. Hringhorni is the name of Baldr's ship: it was greatest of all ships; the gods would have launched it and made Baldr's pyre thereon.
From the Gylfaginning (or the Tricking of Gylfi) that is the first part of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda
mmm. I love how you create effects with ink. The light spots on the Orca do an amazing job of creating the perspective and atmosphere.
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Bello il contrasto fra la scena in bianco e nero e la vela rossa. Forse ci stava bene un bello stemma vichingo in bianco al centro della vela (o viceversa: vela bianca e stemma rosso).
Davvero bellissima! Mi piacciono tantissimo le tue illustrazioni in tono di grigio con pochi tocchi di colore, sono molto d'impatto. Adoro anche la specularità negativa (non mi viene un termine migliore!XD) che hai creato fra le pinne nere e i bianchi uccelli.
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"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Harold Whitman
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Forse ci stava bene un bello stemma vichingo in bianco al centro della vela (o viceversa: vela bianca e stemma rosso).
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