Second last commission from 2020, for a person I cannot find anywhere anymore but used to go by Jasper.
This one was my first attempt at a larger stylized town and more interesting 'marginalia'.

The frame itself is quite simple, featuring two large roses in swapped colour schemes above a slightly pointed arch. The background is where I tried to merge multiple small elements into a little city - including a half-built church (tall gothic apse behind a still more stout and romanesque nave) for which I referenced the St. Mary's Basilica in Krakow as it would appear during it's renovation (a detail captured in the Nuremberg Chronicle). Theres also a few towers with turrets, which I always enjoy drawing. The middleground features a slightly more realistic medieval peasant's hut.

You can see and read more about the St. Mary's Basilica and half-built churches on this page (the reconstruction of the church from around 1360, according to P. Opaliński, Cracovia 3d): https://medievalheritage.eu/en/main.....-marys-church/ which I heavily reccomend for it's broad and deep collection of knowledge and reconstructions of medieval architecture. You can view the Nuremberg Chronicle depiction of Krakow and Kazimierz here (St. Mary's is on the page, middle; you'll recognize it based on the half-built form): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe.....-_CRACOVIA.png also I reference the Nuremberg Chronicle it a lot, so you will hear about it many times again in future artworks.

The bottom of the frame is taken by a depiction of a battle, heavily influenced and based on period depictions, including the weird stylizations of some armour (especially helmets). Worth pointing out is the overwhelming variety of polearms, a dominant weapon on most battlefields at that time, which were also really fun to draw. You can view one such example here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe....._froissart.jpg but there are hundreds if not thousands of similiar depictions from the time period.

Jasper is armoured in typical, even stereotypical, late medieval full plate kit (c. 14-16th century). One mall detail worth pointing out - the small mail flap that would cover the neck in combat is left unfastened. Don't ask how the bascinet houndskull fits though, I hadn't yet figured out how to make them look believeable. They are also equipped with a short sword in a decorative scabbard and a small rondel dagger, both on a large gilded knightly belt. Over their armour they wear a red surcoat (I think it's closer to a surcoat, as tabards usually have some kind of arm sleeve or flap) with a rampant white lion, or: gules, a lion rampant argent.

My signature, as always, tries to keep in style with the rest of the artwork - thus a gothic font, featuring a long S in Basil. This makes it look like Bafil, but it is in fact Baſil; this was done at the time to preserve precious writing space on expensive parchment and I was always fond of including that detail.