The Broken Sword

[eller]

I drew this ATC last week but somehow forgot to upload it here. This is a very German dragon: guarding a hoard of gold, eating the (anti-)heroes who are after that treasure, and everything. :)

Comments

[yhlee]

That's gorgeous!

Nah, Nibelungenlied characters would NEVER be antiheroes! Lies and slander! XD

[eller]

Yeah. Right. XD

[yhlee]

Genuine question: I remember from your posts that Nibelungenlied interpretation and translation is full of land mines esp for foreigners - is the same true of Nibelungenlied-based art? I would consider doing Hagen fanart but it struck me that looking for references could be...troublesome.

[eller]

HAGEN FANART!!! :D I want to see that! :D

Actually, Nibelungenlied art is fairly unproblematic in the political sense. In your research, you'll just find a lot of 19th century fanart bordering on kinky porn - but you'll hardly be shocked. (A certain bondage scene is the clearly most popular fanart motif.) Just don't do that research when other people are around. ;)

Seriously, research should be easy - you don't need to worry about historical accuracy, because, hey, Unknown Author already didn't. (They set the story "in the past", but their characters are wearing "modern" - that is, modern at the time the thing was written - clothes, etc., basically, anything medieval-ish goes.) Unknown Author already seemed to be aware the genre is Fantasy. I mean, there are some landmines if you artificially insert runic or "Germanic" symbolism, but as long as you just stick to the text you're fairly safe.

[ursula]

I like this dragon!

[eller]

yay :) thanks!