Game of Thrones – The Others
I couldn’t finish this series without at least one picture of the Others.
Having said that doing the Others took some thought. Obviously, I didn’t want them to look like the White Walkers in the show. Nor did I want to make them look too much like elves, which I’ve seen way too many times. I tried to make them as inhuman as possible while still being humanoid. I had seen one youtube clip that treated them as high tech aliens. Since their appearance reads like Predator in the Northern Woods, I’m perfectly cool with that.
The other factor is Weymar Royce. I mostly had my previous drawing of him as a reference. There, I did him as the ROTC Lieutenant who gets fragged in the Vietnam film. Here, at his last stand, we can finally respect him. The only problem I had was his armor. One of the hardest parts about taking everything at face value as an illustrator is as you research details you get the feeling that Mr. Martin isn’t quite as good a medievalist as he is a writer. I want to think that when he says ringmail he means chainmail. But because he does use the word chainmail, I’m going to keep drawing ringmail when the text says ringmail until told otherwise.
Game of Thrones – Prologue