+Godfrey Knight of the Temple+

"Godfrey de Montferrat, Knight of the Temple"
Finished August 31st, 2010



Okay, so I actually really like this one. I drew it over my summer vacation and it was originally just meant to be a quick sketch-study of Godfrey's gear (horse tack, weapons, armor, clothing, belts, etc.) for the Graphic novel/comic of the prologue (of "Crown of the World") that I'm going to do (eventually). However---as I'm sure you've ALL become aware of---it doesn't take much to get me going when I draw Godfrey. So yeah, it didn't really stay much like a sketch (and I drew it on crappy paper too. *Jacques facepalm*). I really like his face. After the Montage, it's my favorite face of his that I've drawn.

Doesn't he just look so cute?!

I think his horse is pretty too.

But his great helm is too small for his head. *facepalm*

Actually, when deciding how to draw him, I just based him off how I imagine Alyosha from "Brothers Karamazov" because Godfrey is like….pretty much Alyosha. Yeah…..(at least, how *I* imagine Alyosha. )

So because of that where I was unsure of how to imagine him I used the description of Alyosha to supply it:

"[Alyosha] was simply an early lover of humanity, and that he adopted the monastic life was simply because at that time it struck him, so to say, as the ideal escape for his soul struggling from the darkness of worldly wickedness to the light of love.…SOME of my readers may imagine that my young man was a sickly, ecstatic, poorly developed creature, a pale, consumptive dreamer. On the contrary, Alyosha was at this time a well-grown, red-cheeked, clear-eyed lad of nineteen, radiant with health. He was very handsome, too, graceful, moderately tall, with hair of a dark brown, with a regular, rather long, oval-shaped face, and wide-set dark grey, shining eyes; he was very thoughtful, and apparently very serene…"

- The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky;
Chapters IV and V

There's also a Malik sketch right next to him, but I never finished it. *sighs* Godfrey is way more fun to draw than Malik.

And sadly...that's all for now folks!!!

Character from The Crown of the World by Nathan Sadasivan.

Other Crown of the World inspired pieces:

The Crown of the World
25 Expressions: Godfrey de Montferrat
Malik, Godfrey and Jacques sketch
Oh Godfrey
Poor Jacques
An (almost) Friendless Templar
A Serenading Saracen
Godfrey meets Baldwin IV
Well, this is awkward
A Beef with Gerard de Ridefort
Godfrey's Singing
Dreams of Chivalry
Dormez-vous?
Godfrey and Baldwin-Calvin and Hobbes Style
Godfrey de Montferrat, Knight of the Temple
Boys will be Boys
Drinking Buddies
What do you do with a Drunken Templar?
Chibi Godfrey