Sunday, March 29, 2015

Bartek Drejewicz - drawing warriors with pen and tablet



Salve,
pan Bartek Drejewicz, Polish multi-talented and versatile illustrator and painter, has been creating colorful images of historical fighters with a twist (to my fellow American viewers: perhaps a PG-13 parental guidance rating :) ). The image above is a Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Amazon - :)
A Slavic warrior 'kniahini' (princess) with a willow branch

In Bartek's interpretation these historical soldiers become female warriors, fighers and soldiers and the author took many liberties with their costumes and uniforms. They range from ancient warriors to the Wild West fighters. Bartek took more than some liberties with their historical appearance yet preserving their look quite nicely.
More imags can be seen on Bartek's Facebok page
Bartek's blog on illustrating
Bartek's blog on painting

These are some of the fighting 'amazonian' pin-upish soldiers - Napoleonic  Era 'Amazons' mostly

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 a late XVI - early XVII centuries armoured 'amazonian' rider
and others eg:







enjoy

ps
 I would like to stress that all these images are copyrighted and can be had at Bartek's websites in a fine printed version or as originals etc.

3 comments:

Dario T. W. said...

Fast forward 2 years, and there are the figurines https://www.facebook.com/valkiriapoland/?fref=nf
and.. http://valhalla-figurki.pl/Sklep/pl/143-bartek-s-historical-pin-ups-70-mm

Sadly, there is some project that clearly draws on Bartek's ideas , even stealing the concept I would say - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1263001724/hot-and-dangerous

Dario T. W. said...

As I am reading the case is a bit more complicated https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=122746791639744&id=122724914975265
I hope they will reach some sort of equitable resolution, mutually beneficial to all
buona Fortuna

Dario T. W. said...

Official statement from Wargamer https://www.dropbox.com/s/nq2sgvvkinudhjf/Wargamer%20-%20o%C5%9Bwiadczenie.pdf?dl=0