The first “dark ages” drawing was a poor representation of this time period. It was done at a
time when I was still developing my skills at making the correct proportions of the people in
relation to the space they were in. As seen in many of my early ones, the people in the background
are as large (and in some cases larger) than the foreground figures.
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It’s also not as tightly controlled as this one and seems rushed in a few areas.
I kept the fat bartender
in the foreground but you can see he is much more correctly proportioned in this one. In the first one,
he's way too small. I also kept the people being scared and sickened at the dead guy whose legs are
on the bar but I put the guy who killed him a little closer to the foreground and more obvious.
I feel this one is much better but, as with the first version of the Dark Ages drawing, I worked
from very limited resources. Since it covers such a long time period (500 A.D. to approximately
1200 A.D.), I generally tried to keep the earlier costumes to the left and the later ones to the
right, in keeping with the idea of a timeline. I’m sure that an expert in fashions of this time
would find some flaws in this area. It’s also a mixture of many different European cultures and
realistically, you wouldn’t see a lot of them in the same place together. However, since evidence
of clothing in this time period is so sketchy and sparse, I thought I’d give a general overview of them.
Overall, this one isn't one of my best ones. The far right side, especially the upper areas need
some more work but it's generally a hell of a lot better than the first one.
