Rhapsodies

We go from the innocent times at Winterfell to the simmering intrigue of King’s Landing at the Hand’s Tournament.

I’m currently in the process of coming up with designs for the cast on the fly and this is the first of the pictures where I had to think about what people looked like. I did a preliminary sketch of Robert, though I’m afraid he still looks a lot like Mark Addy. Selmy was a little harder mainly I couldn’t help wondering how much armor a King’s Guard would be wearing. Yes I know the bulk and weight of full armor is greatly exaggerated, but there is a great difference a knight fighting on the field and a knight as a bodyguard for his lord in a castle. For Ned, I gave him  a very long face since that has been described as the default Stark look in the books.

I’m mostly happy with this though I had several thoughts after the fact of the positioning of Robert in the foreground. I just assumed he was bending down to throw the breastplate… that’s the story I’m sticking with anyway.

“for a moment Robert was so angry he could not speak. He strode across the tent, whirled, strode back, his face dark and angry. He snatched up his breastplate from the ground and threw it at Barristan Selmy in a wordless fury. Selmy dodged. “Get Out,” the king said then, coldly. “get out before I kill you.”