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January 26, 2010
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Marie-Antoinette spotlight page from Dead Queen Detectives 2: International Queens. Really distorted photo but just about readable. Pen and ink on A3 Bristol Board.
:iconlun-sei:
Oh dear, I don't know wether Marie-Antoinette is totally cute or totally annoying! XD
So why did you decide to depict her with that personality? Probably it's my rather poor knowledge of historical figures that makes me ask this; and that's very embarassing.... :/

Will you be uploading more of these?
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:iconbevismusson:
I think she's going to end up being a bit of both. Anne, in the first set of stories, is a bit dim and naive but not really stupid. Marie-Antoinette is going to be barely functioning in comparisson. It's actually completely historically inaccurate since she wasn't stupid at all, just a bit naive and treated very badly. By some accounts she was actually reasonably smart but was never allowed to do anything that stretched her mentally. She was also targeted all through her life with propoganda against her which has left this enduring image of her being very stupid, whether it be true or not.

Still, DQD is based on what people 'know', not what is actually true (she never said 'let them eat cake' for a start) because that's far more amusing. Also, and it's more obvious in Hathspesut's page, Marie was beheaded which hasn't exactly helped her intelligence level subsequently. :)

And yep, I'll probably put up at least all the spotlight pages for the new queens if not all the pages from the second issue since I don't know when I'll be able to get a print run done. If I can get to the Bristol Comic Expo and can get the issue done by then I'll save the actual stories until after the print run. If Bristol doesn't happen, then I shall put them up here.
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