The bride

This piece started out as a very idle doodle among idle doodles, but eventually I developed it and I'm kindasorta pleased with the result. She is supposed to be Selvaggia of Staufen, natural daughter of emperor Fredrick II and first wife of Ezzelino da Romano. Now, Ezzelino was a feudal tyrant who ruled most of the region where I live around the mid 13th century. Think of a real life mix of Roose Bolton and... Euron Greyjoy? He is still present in local popular culture as a synonimous with ruthless tyranny, but I admit I never researched his story that much, and now I want to *pouts* So I was reading up what I could find online, and I realized that he married Selvaggia when she was thirteen and he was in his mid forties (the dates in the English wiki are wrong there). I know, other times, other culture, etc., but still. Can you imagine being thirteen and going to marry the meanest mofo of your times? Not exactly ideal, I say. So I began to doodle Selvaggia as rather childlike, as many thirteen years old actually are, just because I wanted to visualize the creepy side of it.

- Painted in SAI
- Texture by ~darkrose42-stock
- WIP here: [link]