Week 7 - #2

This week I set to the task of developing the illustrations of my manuscript. After filling in the title case letter of the first page I set out to fill in the biggest illustration of the project. I picked a scene from the story found in the text of this page and illustrated it by hand using a pencil. The way I did this was by finding references online of drawings of “lute players” or “woman on horseback” found in illuminated manuscripts. I stylized the background of the drawing and simplified it dramatically from anything resembling realism because art in the early Middle Ages was depicted in the same way.