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Medieval & Mantled Helms ~Dierdriana
Maureen W. Clifton
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I have loved to draw helms since I first discovered that I could draw them! I think they are so neat with their many designs & styles from so many eras & cultures.
I seem to be attracted to more central European, Norse & Celtic styles, though I have listed it as British, for lack of another destination. I have drawn a number of helms over the last 3+ decades.
The opening helm with mantling was the first helm I ever drew & that was 1977. It is a Medieval Jousting Helm from 1485 AD. I has seen that kind of helm in art & just had to draw it with mantling, as I felt that helm just seemed to need it, rather than a ‘torque’ (Latin word: torque or torques – meaning a collar of twisted fabric – later used around the top of a helm often 2 or 3 colors of one’s Arms [Heraldic Device] & secured with or without lengths as a plume in the back). Other views were drawn later & the one with quite the fluffy plume was fun!
Do look at my Medieval Newsletter Covers, as there is a cover with 4 different helms inside a shield with a fancy plumed helm & mantling at the top. My other 2 helms herein were used as ‘filler art’ in newsletters.
See additional views of a Danish Helm from 900 AD with a partly open face & an Armet Plumed Helm from central Europe about 1475 AD.
Years later, I drew the tops of a whole bunch of different helms for my Newsletter Cover for The Shhire of Esfenn’s SHIELDWALL. I woke up one day with an idea that since the newsletter’s name was ‘SHIELDWALL’ – I needed to create a medieval ‘Shieldwall’ of Armour Knights or Men at Arms approaching their opponents with great vigor & each shield with a letter of the name on it!
I had this idea of military men marching & one sorry sap unable to keep in step, so he is out of step & appears to be falling off the end. That is part of the humor in the pun & whole design & was done quite on purpose.
Until I drew my SHIELDWALL, I had never drawn Armoured Legs, though I knew what they looked like/ I had never drawn boots from the front with one up & the other on the ground.
I recently found my original sketches & had a good laugh, as I did not even remember I kept them. I began drawing all the Armoured legs that showed part of the Cuisses (upper leg plate), Poleyns (knee plate) & Chausses (lower leg plate), though did not know how to draw marching Sabatons or Solerets (Armoured feet plate).
So, I decided that the tops of boots & not showing much of their Chausses & the men kicking up dust worked best! Actually, it made it even funnier when everyone saw it.
I remember drawing it, as it was quite fun! Everyone loved my cover idea & it was a great hit! I never received my original back from the Chronicler, so have had to take bad copies & adjust them. The 2nd Shieldwall seen herein has an article with it I wrote.
Thank you for visiting my Medieval Art Gallery. © All Photos, Artwork & Costume Designs Created by Maureen & Posted on this SCA Medieval Art & Costume Gallery on Yessy. No image posted may be used without permission of Maureen W. Clifton, aka: Countess Dierdriana of the Misty Isles, Member of The Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. (SCA: www.SCA.org ). Nothing within Maureen’s/Dierdriana’s Medieval Art Gallery represents any SCA policies, regulations &/or laws in any way. Please See Maureen’s Bio & Other Yessy Art Gallery.
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