Comic drawing - Royal Scots Dragoon Guards

Description

There is one instrument that gives me goose bumps whenever I hear it - the bagpipes.

Why? – well, I don’t know - perhaps because of old movies.

It’s always the same: I hear the sound and already I'm in the Scottish Highlands.

Highlands! - that's funny, because the bagpipe probably comes from India.

Even the Roman emperor Nero (a great actor) probably played bagpipes before Rome burned

In the Middle Ages there were bagpipes throughout Europe and today the 'Pagan Music' could hardly exist without that instrument.

Why Highlands?

Well, just imagine a scene: two Highland clans stand in the face of a battle in the Scottish hills. When establishing their ranks they probably can’t see each other - but they can hear the enemy. It must feel like hell, when you hear that sound, only moments before you risk your live.

Of course, the 'Royal Scots Dragoon Guards' are a military unit - soldiers. Like any military, they have a music group, the 'Pipes and Drums'.

With 'Amazing Grace' these soldiers even were in the charts.

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Steps

1. Bones
2. Basic figur
3. Clothes and tools
4. line-shading
5. Finished drawing

final drawing

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