21 October 2005



Stronghold

The stronghold protects.


"Artillery towers had other design weaknesses - flaws even, from the point of view of engineers searching out the perfect fortification design. An artillery tower was intended as a massive, self-defending strongpoint radiating defensive fire; to maximise that fire the tendency was to pile up the tiers of gunrooms."
'The Renaissance at War' Thomas Arnold

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Shyue Chou, great to see your recent sketches and artwork!
BTW, not sure if you've been tagged by anyone from IllustrationFriday.com before, but now... TAG, YOU'RE IT!!
Do post 20 random facts about yourself and tag as many people as the number of minutes it took to compile the list! :)

Chuang Shyue Chou said...

Hi Edric,

Thanks for you kind words. I appreciate them. Regarding the tags, I am really sorry. I am just not into that sort of thing. Heh. Well, I know the drawings and posts are already a mental map and image and they probably tell one a lot more than a listing of 20 items? Heheheh.

shyue chou

Chuang Shyue Chou said...

I will probably work further on this piece.

I am still not satisfied.

This is a style I used a few years back and have used it little since.