Brother Saint Georges in a Dreadnought, fighting with Big Boss Drakka da Dragon

2021, not colorised.

I always loved greenskins and history. And when i had the chance to create an artwork that could use both my passions, i jumped on it.

This project was the right occasion to try to tighten the bonds between a medieval motif and a modern approach of it. I wanted to go for the religious effect on the render, as were the woodcuts from the gothic medieval era, at the very first years of XVIth century

The techniques

The sketch was originally drawn on transparent paper, then reported on the lino block, then inked with on the block. Once dried out, the block was carved with gouges: the linocut process itself. This process was particularly long, due to the massive amount of texts that is included in the orginal poem.

This was one of my earliest projects, one of my biggest occasions to learn and do mistakes. My skill level when i started was nothing close to the one i had when i closed it.

To print out something, the carved block was inked with a brayer and printing ink and the sheet of paper was pressed using a printing linocut press.