thanks! <3

sure! It's here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/uky42o6e2gutb3k/Gladiator%20EF18.tif I also made a full pencil shading before I traditionally colored it myself. Unfortunately the detailed shading is lost and I only have a photo of it somewhere in the 4k pictures on my iphone ^^;

thanks. :) A long while ago, I was planning to do a comic set in ancient rome featuring this cervine gladiator and a horse soldier. IT was meant to be set next to my home area in Germany in a Roman city called Colonia Ulpia Travana - a place deeply tied with the history of the area I was born and bred. I always felt a strong connection to that history and the Roman era, so I thought it was a good idea but it turned out to be way beyond my abilities - or so I thought. I decided to change subject for my first comic book project to something less complicated and tied to actual facts. Although I love Roman culture and history and basically 'grew up' in the ruins of that city and the museum and archeological park at the site, I am getting weary, soon, when I have to stick too tightly to historical facts. The armor and clothing and wherabouts of the factions during that time alone are incredibly interesting on one hand but tiresome to research in every little detail on the other.

That, and I struggled to put an anthro horse on a real horse. My fiance said I shouldn't - it's fantasy after all. But I couldn't get over it and couldn't imagine this era without non-anthro horses in a good way... some of the Germanic tribes made up a huge portion of the Roman cavallery in those times which is one of the if not the most interesting fact - and what lead to the destruction of the city in the end because the tribes rallied against the Romans. Ah well... that was a long story. Haha! Sorry for that. :x