Cloak and Braid

Raleigh Samson

Well, it's only been a year. Have another Raleigh Samson. Here he is on a little excursion in the Emerald Graves. His Lyrium addiction now only a faint memory. 

It's been a looong road...

 

Raleigh Samson

... getting from there to here.

As they sing in the theme song from Star Trek Enterprise. And boy has it been a long time.

It has been been over two years since I finished a personal piece. I actually started this one in order to test a Xencelabs Pen Display 24 for work. It's a wonderful piece of kit, and so not my thing. What can I say, drawing on screens just doesn't do it for me. So I returned to my tablet and pen to finish it.

For your consideration... My take on Raleigh Samson from the Dragon Age games. Oddly topical since the next Dragon Age game is coming out soon.

I do love taking tragic characters who have had all the worst luck and give them redemption and a happy ending. Which is exactly what is happening here. Look at him all smiling and recovering from Lyrium addiction after having joined the Inquisition. Boy gone done good after all.

The Dickens

Charles Dickens

So Dickens take a, Dickens take a bow. And heaven knows he's miserable now. 

He's bad

Emperor Nero

... so baddie, at badness he's the daddy.

A magical moment has occurred. I give you my 29th face for the 29 Faces challenge. This is the first time ever in all the years that I have taken part that I have managed 29 faces in 28 days. I'm so happy! 😁

Not just a hop, but non-stop

Wilbur and Orville Wright

Their engine's small, but powerful. Propelled to a great height!

Alexaaaaander!

Al the Great

Alexander is his name, Macedonia's most famous commander. History calls 'The Great' but he prefers 'The Greatest'.

Henry VII

Henry VII

He's the original Tu-tu-tu-tudor. Father of that dynasty. The man who closes the War of the Roses. That's right, that's right, that's he.

Giovanni Borgia

Giovanni Borgia

From the Italian barmy army, the Borgia Family.

Robert the Bruce

 

Robert the Bruce

Don't mention the spider.

Someone open a window

Dr Nicholas Culpeper

Dr Nicholas Culpeper. A mustachio to die for, which may well happen if you go to his health spa. A Stuart era doctor who believed that tobacco was the cure for all ailments.

James VI and I

James VI / I

James the 1st of England. Guy Fawkes tried to blow him up and turn him into Stuart stew.

He's got the blue blooded blues

 

Robert III of Scotland

King Robert III, some say he was a fool. Once fell of his horse and hurt himself, quite badly, how uncool. Ended up with a limp, and limp was what they called his rule.

My favourite engineer

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

He was a tunnel building, bridge creating, hard grafting, ship crafting polymath... Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Shakespeare, William

Bill

May seem kinda scary, he's a walking dictionary. Sturdy with the wordy, Shakespeare.

No more 'stand and deliver'

Dick Turpin

... you'll remember this I hope. It's no fun hanging with highway men when you're... hanging from a rope.'

Dick Turpin ya'll.

Don't cross us Aztecs we advise ya...

 

...or you'll end up as fertilizer.

Vercingetorix

 

Vercingetorix

Leader of the Gaulish hordes. So deadly he could wear pigtails and still look hard.

He's George the 4th

 

... Which means he was just standing in, acting King because his dad, George the 3rd had gone barking mad. He loved more girls than he ate pies, but he couldn't stand his wife. 

Ok, I love this song so much! I really wan to to perform it on stage one day.

Do the Pachacuti

Pachacuti

It's 29 Faces time and I'm so excited. This time I have a very special theme... Horrible Histories. I have recently been watching the series and I'm utterly in love with it. The acting is hilarious and the costumes are just fantastic. And the songs...Don't get me started. I'm learning them all of by heart. So I just had to start with Pachacuti, the Incan lord whom other tribes dreaded. When it came to claiming nearby land, he was the one to risk it, but it's how he treated dead enemies that really took the biscuit. I have also added the link to his song... be warned... it will get stuck in your head. 😃

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51aHb_U8Zr0

A Thorne in my side

 

Thomas Thorne

I have now watched BBC's Ghosts. And in the words of OK Go 'It's not passing fascination now,

It's obsession'. 

Here's a painting of dead, romantic poet Thomas Thorne. I just love the way he mooches around in a perpetual state of melancholic pining, looking like he's moments away from a dramatic break-down.