Sketchbook Tudors

Just some random sketchbook doodles, drawn from the Showtime series, The Tudors.
(clockwise from top left: Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII, Mark Smeaton, Anne Boleyn, Thomas More>

I gotta admit, I really enjoy (ie: LOVE?!) this show. Yes, it's not exactly the, er, most historically accurate recounting of Henry VIII's story, but, er... sexification!

Sexified history (and there are copious amounts of under-the-corset action and gay-boy kissing) can make up for any, er, deviations from fact. Or fabricating people. Or reinventing traditionally 'rugged' (coughuglycough) folks as steamy and delicious young man-imals. Man, I want pie now.

I've been rewatching it on CBC.ca (free streaming video available to all you Canucks! also, CBC is great because it shows nipples at 9pm), and I gotta say, it's damn addictive. I enjoy anything with constant costume changes by default, but it's great when you're actually learning something. Welllll, even if it's sexed-up Fact who just downed half a bottle of tequila and forgets what it's supposed to be doing sometimes.

May I just add that James Frain's ears are hilariously fun to draw?

Oh, and Grant from Jurassic Park was in it, so I kept having subliminal thoughts about dinosaur attacks... WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN AWESOME. Ahem.

So, what do you think about sexified history? Abhorrent nonsense, or tasty fluff that, if nothing else, gives people some idea about what happened (and hey, isn't some better than none? )

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pencil crayon and graphite on rag paper