03-28-2006, 04:55 PM
Hello Travis
I have just posted a picture of a tunic, see my earlier post above. My friend Raffaele was always critical of the way I painted sleeves on my Late Roman soldiers probably because I was using some re-enactors as models! Like you he follows the artistic sources while I tend to use the archaeological sources and my experience in re-enactment. We meet in the middle, sometimes!
Even so I thought the sleeves in my drawings were a lot tighter fitting than many other modern versions I have seen and certainly some which are in this thread and elsewhere on RAT. If you have copies of Roman Military Clothing 2 and 3 you will notice that I have drawn the sleeves a lot closer around the wrist in volume 3 which Raffaele wrote.
He advised me to study the garments worn by Priests especially those in the Orthodox church which will obviously be of interest to you. They do not seem to have problems bending their arms but possibly they are using finer material than most modern re-enactors tend to do.
Best wishes
Graham
I have just posted a picture of a tunic, see my earlier post above. My friend Raffaele was always critical of the way I painted sleeves on my Late Roman soldiers probably because I was using some re-enactors as models! Like you he follows the artistic sources while I tend to use the archaeological sources and my experience in re-enactment. We meet in the middle, sometimes!
Even so I thought the sleeves in my drawings were a lot tighter fitting than many other modern versions I have seen and certainly some which are in this thread and elsewhere on RAT. If you have copies of Roman Military Clothing 2 and 3 you will notice that I have drawn the sleeves a lot closer around the wrist in volume 3 which Raffaele wrote.
He advised me to study the garments worn by Priests especially those in the Orthodox church which will obviously be of interest to you. They do not seem to have problems bending their arms but possibly they are using finer material than most modern re-enactors tend to do.
Best wishes
Graham
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
