How have I missed this thread, and why am I the first to like and comment after a month? Has it been hidden?
I've seen your illustrations in some of the current stories, Settantuno, wonderfully done simple vignettes and straight to the point, as we see here in the thread. I hadn't seen the first two pics though, larger and more ambitious, and very very good.
That first one has such a lot going on, the bored soldiers, the onlookers, the shocked woman in the background, and the intensely lively naked young lady receiving her punishment. The frame that holds the pulley foreshadows her ultimate fate, death by hanging. There is even an echo of the girls flogging in the ox driver and his whip.
I assume the second one is the same woman, now hanged. Very different, a much quieter scene but no less dramatic, we see her after her initial struggles, swinging and slowly succumbing to the rope, still conscious. The colour in the central part of the picture focuses our attention on the subject, and on the reactions of the onlookers. Look at the woman behind her, mirroring her pose, fully clothed, smiling. Is this a before and after, a lesson in how easily fate can change?
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Great work, I'd love to see more of these big set pieces.