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Born to the lowly slums of Paris he was the child of parents crushed down by poverty. Nothing really that different from hundreds like him born every year. By the time he reached his sixth birthday he was one of the orphaned dirty and unwashed ragamuffins that swarmed the dark back streets and narrow alleys, living on charity when he was given it, or making his own charity with light-fingered thievery.
His view of the world and the path he could make in it increased considerably when he reached puberty. He discovered that he had something that others not only lusted after but were even were willing to pay for. The perfumed nobility soon replaced merchants’ wives and sons. Perfumed and lace-bedecked lodgments at Versailles at the King and Queen’s royal palace soon replaced Paris.
Amidst court intrigues stirred by the King’s scheming Chief Minister, Cardinal de Richelieu, the once upon a time “gutter-rat”, thief, and bed boy discovered a corps of men dedicated in word and action to defending the King’s honor and the Queen’s virtue.
Well, he knew he could defend the King’s honor at least. En Garde!
An artistic project at creating a faux bookcover that suggests a story. It was a fun challenge, especially since I already knew the “story” and so had no problem satisfying the “editor”.
His view of the world and the path he could make in it increased considerably when he reached puberty. He discovered that he had something that others not only lusted after but were even were willing to pay for. The perfumed nobility soon replaced merchants’ wives and sons. Perfumed and lace-bedecked lodgments at Versailles at the King and Queen’s royal palace soon replaced Paris.
Amidst court intrigues stirred by the King’s scheming Chief Minister, Cardinal de Richelieu, the once upon a time “gutter-rat”, thief, and bed boy discovered a corps of men dedicated in word and action to defending the King’s honor and the Queen’s virtue.
Well, he knew he could defend the King’s honor at least. En Garde!
An artistic project at creating a faux bookcover that suggests a story. It was a fun challenge, especially since I already knew the “story” and so had no problem satisfying the “editor”.
Category All / General Furry Art
Species Lion
Size 367 x 600px
File Size 67.7 kB
Musketeers were often times deployed in the same way as mounted cavalry. Ride to the scene of a critical action in a battle, dismount and begin firing their muskets into the enemy could often times turn a losing battle into a victory. Even when on palace duty a musketeer would generally wear his spurs to remind everyone that they were an elite unit. Sort of like a Special Forces unit.
In and out of the palace, in and out, in and out, in and out. Thrusting back and forth for hours on end. Panting and sweating. Ah, the work of a musketeer serving the Queen's is never done. And then of course there's the occasionsl encounter with the Cardinal's guards at one of the Paris taverns to break up the "monotony".
Thanks, Din. Glad you enjoyed my little "bookcover".
Thanks, Din. Glad you enjoyed my little "bookcover".
I imagine after a while he gets pretty smooth at it. you know, able to go faster and faster when he must run in and out, in and out from the palace. And even if he's panting and sweating, he must enjoy and find pure ecstasy in his position, huh? Plus, getting into a few tussles with the Cardinal's guards can be plenty of a challenge to keep things sharp and fresh! =P
You're welcome, Lionus. ^-^ Makes me think it would be a fun book to get absorbed into on a rainy day.
You're welcome, Lionus. ^-^ Makes me think it would be a fun book to get absorbed into on a rainy day.
I'm glad you like them, Jvanankat. For me, every page of History is full of interesting stories to tell. Different places and different times, different costumes and different attitudes and yes, different problems too. Doing these pictures is fun for me since they not only present different artistic challenges but for the hours that it takes to complete them they send me "back then" in my imagination and put me in the characters' company. Why can't all work be as much fun?
The fleur-de-lis rests safe within Chevalier Leon's silken paws. But what rest for our hero when every young noble at court longs to taste his blade? Indeed; I believe I fancy a sword-fight with him myself, perhaps while swinging from a chandelier. It would be completely civilized, of course; with seconds to hold our clothes, err... I mean cloaks. I care not how many Medici's he's sired, he will have to match me stroke for stroke. En garde, Monsieur Chat!
You're brilliant Monsieur Stonebear!!!! Your innuendoes and subtle passing of puns is as skillful as any musketeer's rapier work. I salute you. *takes off his hat and sweeps the floor with it in a deep courtly bow to you*
Now, let's get down to some serious "swordplay". Your bedroom or mine?
HA HA! Saucy lad; your flourish honors me more than words can say. I accept with a courtly bow, reluctantly putting up my blade, though its sheath grows heavier with each moment my eyes dwell upon your rampant visage, soon to be sejant erect. But alas, mon cheri! Where is that pulse you spoke of? I'm sure you know the cardinal keeps a suite of rooms in the palace, and while he is off tending to his life; I suggest we have the grace to honor... oh yes, there it is... indeed. Mon dieu! These are the shoulders I must face?
The book is the quintessential start of any Musketeer collection, wolfy. There have been quite a few movies made from it. The best, IMHO, are Disney's "The Three Musketeers" (Sheen, Sutherland, O’Donnell, Platt, Curry & De Mornay) and the Ilya & Alexandre Salkind "Three Musketeers" and "Four Musketeers" (York, Reed, Chamberlain, Finlay, Welch, Heston, Dunaway and Lee).
Now as in any picture, the darkest portions make the brighter portions stand out all the more. A really nasty villain makes the hero, or in this case heroes, look all the more heroic. Tim Curry in the role of the villainous (and somewhat lecherous) Cardinal Richelieu in Disney's version and Charlton Heston as a slightly more forgivable villain in the Salkind two flicks are brilliant. Both actors made the Cardinal a delicious villain that the musketeers had to really work to overcome. I highly recommend renting all three movies.
If you are a fan of swashbuckling movies, buy them if you can.
Now as in any picture, the darkest portions make the brighter portions stand out all the more. A really nasty villain makes the hero, or in this case heroes, look all the more heroic. Tim Curry in the role of the villainous (and somewhat lecherous) Cardinal Richelieu in Disney's version and Charlton Heston as a slightly more forgivable villain in the Salkind two flicks are brilliant. Both actors made the Cardinal a delicious villain that the musketeers had to really work to overcome. I highly recommend renting all three movies.
If you are a fan of swashbuckling movies, buy them if you can.
Arrrgh!!! Caught in an anachronism! Thanks, Lupus.
Now see, that's why editors keep historic consultants on their staff.
*deletes reference to palace at Versailles and rewrites it as 'a little known royal getaway of palatial splendor and decadence which unfortunately it did not survive the French Revolution years later. Even any mention of the secret retreat was purged from written records during The Terror (1793-94) by the puritanical Robespierre. An act of “cultural purging” that would not be seen again until the Nazi book-burnings of the 1930’s.’
Does that get me off the hook?
Now see, that's why editors keep historic consultants on their staff.
*deletes reference to palace at Versailles and rewrites it as 'a little known royal getaway of palatial splendor and decadence which unfortunately it did not survive the French Revolution years later. Even any mention of the secret retreat was purged from written records during The Terror (1793-94) by the puritanical Robespierre. An act of “cultural purging” that would not be seen again until the Nazi book-burnings of the 1930’s.’
Does that get me off the hook?
Thank you, LionBreed. I like to tell a “story” in almost all of my pictures and stories largely deal with Who, What, Where, When and How or Why.
An artist in one of the hundreds of "You can Learn to Draw" books that I have read once wrote that 'backgrounds should be given the same amount of attention that you give to any other character in your picture. Backgrounds tell the viewer something about the characters you are showing them – what their choice has been in where they wanted to be at that precise moment you have depicted'.
I always thought that that was a good reason to spend time on my backgrounds and the details that I could put into them in order to tell my little stories.
An artist in one of the hundreds of "You can Learn to Draw" books that I have read once wrote that 'backgrounds should be given the same amount of attention that you give to any other character in your picture. Backgrounds tell the viewer something about the characters you are showing them – what their choice has been in where they wanted to be at that precise moment you have depicted'.
I always thought that that was a good reason to spend time on my backgrounds and the details that I could put into them in order to tell my little stories.
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