fanart, Fealty

[ratcreature]

Fandom: Merlin
Characters/Pairings: Arthur, Merlin, Gwen, Gaius, Elyan, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Sir Leon, guards
Media used: Acrylic paint on paper; original size is roughly 34 x 32cm; scanned in parts and assembled digitally with some minor corrections in GIMP (hopefully not too noticeable). For more detail, see the process post.
Rating/warnings: G, none
Notes/comments: I made this for the yuletart gift exchange for chen_san, originally posted here. Art betas were goss and vito_excalibur. It is set in the future. After Arthur becomes king Merlin swears an oath of fealty in a commendation ceremony to him.

Please do not distribute my art without my permission, i.e. do not upload my art to other sites, services, archives, or wikis. That includes "reblogging" the images themselves on services such as Tumblr.

Preview:

Comments

[giandujakiss]

Oh wow - this is absolutely gorgeous! It's so elaborate and detailed!

[ratcreature]

Thank you! The detail was a lot of work, so it's great to hear people like that part.

[tassosss]

I love this, just the whole scene and the story behind it.

[ratcreature]

Thank you! It's great to year that you enjoy it for the story underpinning it. I always enjoy art that tells a story most myself.

[ariadneelda]

(Here from your reply to my comment on the yuletart post.)

I loved this piece and it's great to see it in higher resolution detail - thanks for linking me here! :)

[ratcreature]

Thank you for commenting and for coming here. I'm glad you enjoy the detail.

[auroraprimavera]

Me again! Hi - Still love this, btw. I just wanted to let you know that I'm subscribing to your journal. I love your art and want to keep up with what you do :D

[ratcreature]

Thank you! I'm happy you like it enough to subscribe. I hope I won't disappoint, as sadly I'm not all that prolific when it comes to art... I always have the best intentions to draw/paint more, and then I end up being an unproductive sloth anyway.

[auroraprimavera]

Considering you churned out more art last year than I have in the past five years - you're super prolific! And I understand about being an unproductive sloth - I have a tendency to do that w/ my writing :p

Also - I am in love with your icons - so adorable.

[fanarts-series.livejournal.com]

I'm a very naughty girl, to see Merlin like that on his knees for his king, the hands in prayer, head bowed in reverence and submission. Perfect you rock !

[ratcreature]

Heh. No more naughty than me. As I explain in the process post, while the picture is gen, and the posture valid for an oath scenario, I also picked it because I have loyalty, service and slavery kinks, and while I don't draw explicit art, that doesn't mean they are free from my kinks...

[fanarts-series.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the explanation.
Loyalty, service and slavery make some hot and cool fics, it's weir that there are not more fics or arts in Merlin fandom because it's the perfect show for a slavefic.

[sholio]

I don't think I clicked on this one when they were anonymous, since it's not a fandom I'm into, but wow -- that is just incredible. I can't get over the amount of detail and the depth that it has. Utterly gorgeous!

[ratcreature]

Thank you. I was a lot of work to paint so many people, and the clothing and armor, so I'm glad to hear it paid off.