Hysterically historical

We're doing a comic-strip project in art class, and like the history nerd I am, I decided to include some great northern war-leaders in mine!

Here you see my process sketches for the different leaders, that I am still not done with. The only official design is the bottom drawing of Karl XII.

I chose that one because it was more simple, more cartoony, and showed his personality as the child-king he initially was, and came to be known for. (He became king at the age of 14/15 because his dad died from what they suspect might have been some form of cancer.)

The leaders in the sketches: Karl XII of Sweden, Augustus III of Poland-Lithania, Fredrik V of Denmark and Peter the Great of Russia.

(these drawings are in no way meant to be patriotic, or to glorify the people it's depicting. It is more of a comedic take on history and is not to be taken seriously)

I've been gone for quite a while, haven't I? Well, check out this book I found at our library, and it's about Bernadotte! (Karl Johan, king of Sweden after Gustav IV. The so called "French king" cuz he was adopted from France haha)

It's a comic book telling the story about how Bernadotte ended up as the Swedish royal family! If you're interested in Swedish history, and even if you're not, you should check it out. The art is really cool.

Here's an example:

"Ål-land"

"Ål" in Swedish means "Eel"

But wait... Sweden... Swede... Oh no

Swede and Ål-land

Perfect

Weird shit is happening

Aph Denmark: AND STARTED BLOWING UP BUILDINGS

WOAH DUDE

DUDE

Literally every Swede’s reaction to snow. I’m starting to worry that we’re turning into senile old people cuz, every time the snow first falls everyone’s reaction is like if we haven’t seen snow since 1954 or something.

This includes me. I woke up this morning and saw that there was snow laying on the streets and I had the same reaction as Aph Sweden.