Diana Villiers, Widow and Swordmistress

Diana Villiers, widow, poor relation and Swordmistress.

Cover art for alltoseek's Juerga

One notices this in researching of Regency women's styles - the hairstyle is practically universal. This image size won't show it but the sword hilt has a stylised tiger head and the belt has Indian embellishments. The sword blade and general hilt style is European, but the decorations are entirely Indian to reflect Diana's life before returning to England. When researching Indian swords, there were several examples where a European blade was given foreign fittings.

Background adapted from Patti Trostle's work, as seen here: www.floridatoday.com/article/B…
Face model adapted from Christine Kaufman (as seen in The Swordsman of Siena) : bswordswomen.runboard.com/t61
Hands and pose: myself.

Companion piece to The Intagible [ crimsongriffin28.deviantart.co… ]

Excuse the crap hair and dress shading - I'm still learning so much on Photoshop.