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Wanted my final piece of 2012 to be something personal and meaningful, so here to a portrait of my hero, Saladin.
Ballpoint pen portrait, coloured in photoshop. Sketched partially in Acre, Israel, finished in the shade of the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, Israel. Coloured digitally in my basement on the East Coast, USA.
Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and leader of the Saracens during the Third Crusade...founder of the Ayyubid dynasty...born in Tikrit, Iraq, a Kurd, Sunni Muslim...grew up in Damascus...took Jerusalem virtually bloodlessly, leading to the launch of the Third Crusade...smashed the Crusader forces at Hattin in Northern Israel...made a peace treaty with King Richard I of England...essentially reduced Crusader territory to a small strip of land along the Mediterranean coastline...
And much more.
Got to walk in his footsteps...pray in his mosques...pretty awesome. He means a lot to me.
Happy 2012, and Happy New Year 2013! Peace!
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Wanted my final piece of 2012 to be something personal and meaningful, so here to a portrait of my hero, Saladin.
Ballpoint pen portrait, coloured in photoshop. Sketched partially in Acre, Israel, finished in the shade of the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, Israel. Coloured digitally in my basement on the East Coast, USA.
Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and leader of the Saracens during the Third Crusade...founder of the Ayyubid dynasty...born in Tikrit, Iraq, a Kurd, Sunni Muslim...grew up in Damascus...took Jerusalem virtually bloodlessly, leading to the launch of the Third Crusade...smashed the Crusader forces at Hattin in Northern Israel...made a peace treaty with King Richard I of England...essentially reduced Crusader territory to a small strip of land along the Mediterranean coastline...
And much more.
Got to walk in his footsteps...pray in his mosques...pretty awesome. He means a lot to me.
Happy 2012, and Happy New Year 2013! Peace!
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Category Artwork (Digital) / Human
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 768 x 1280px
File Size 164.6 kB
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I had never seem this piece, but I really like it and even more so the story behind it, Saladin was a great man, and a fair one, I think he would weep to see what has become of his homeland today.
He is a great hero, in any faith, because his views and his deeds are laudable by all, just like those of Archbishop Romero or St. Ignatius (the patron saint of soldiers, I don't think he is a twilight saint though).
He is a great hero, in any faith, because his views and his deeds are laudable by all, just like those of Archbishop Romero or St. Ignatius (the patron saint of soldiers, I don't think he is a twilight saint though).
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