Aideu, My Beloved Oscar

23 Febuary 2015
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_{"Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World!
You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled
Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring
The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing."
-William Butler Yeats}

I think I've been thinking a lot about historical anime for some reason. First I drew Emma from Victorian Romance Emma, and now I've got Oscar, from Rose of Versailles. Well, regardless, if you know anything about Rose of Versailles, it's that Oscar has a beautiful head of hair. You'll also note the story takes place in the 18th century, a time we all remember as men's fashion being filled with ponytails, powedered wigs or not. Yet our protagonist here always wears her hair loose, so I've always had this urge to give her a ponytail. The effort was definitely worth it.


And of course it's always fun to draw gorgeous bifauxen characters. I mean who doesn't love pretty girls who look like handsome and dashing prince-types? We need something like Takarazuka over here in this area, really...

I partially used François Boucher's self portrait as a reference, but I for some reason I'm slipping back into more dramatic lighting and darker colours today. It's not rococo, but it does have a more classical feel with these colours.
Comments are encouraged, like always~!
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Materials:
_{-Mechanical Pencil; Red (0.5)
-Graphite Pencil; 2H
-Paint Tool SAI
-Photoshop}

References:
_{upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia… | www.onlyshojo.com/Immagini/Lad… | www.onlyshojo.com/Immagini/Lad…}

Estimated Time:
_{-2 Hrs.}

Music:
_{-Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K 488 Adagio (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
-Bara Wa Utsukushiku Chiru (Hiroko Suzuki)
-Ai no Hikari to Kage (Hiroko Suzuki)
-Quartetto Rococo (Michelle Diehl)}