Antsa and Maior Munioitz de Ibarra of Euskal ErresumaHWS Medieval Basque Women Warriors Concept - Historically Wrong Sketch SeriesInspired by: youtu.be/8sQA74KxHAE ===Historical Commentaries===Basque people or "Euskaldunak" in their language, is one of the unique ethnic group in Iberian peninsula. They speak one of the few language isolate in the world, that is, Basque language is not related to any other language group in the world according to established linguistics. Apart from that, they were also known for a rather unusual social practice and culture in the eyes of its neighbors; this includes the practice of Elizate and the fact that Basque women had more social mobility and did occupied important socio-political as well as religious positions which contrasted their neighbors (eg. Roman, Visigoths and Christian Spanish). Nevertheless, much of their culture is relatively unknown outside europe and their legacy largely overshadowed by the Spanish.In the context of the middle ages, the area which included in the "Basque Country" was originally a contested buffer zone by the Carolingian Franks and the Ummayad Caliphathe. In this region lies Pamplona, a city with predominantly vasconic population, where Eneko (Íñigo Arista) became the ruler of the area around Pamplona in opposition to Frankish expansion into the region. Initially they served as vassal of the Cordoban Emirate, but later broke free in the 10th century, only to be dominated again by the muslims in the early 11th century. By the late 11th CE, the sovereignity enjoyed brief rule of independence, but due to partitions and dynastic changes, this led to internal division and diminution of its territory. By the early 16th century, the Basque speaking lost its independence and was fully incorporatedby the Spanish, first under Crown of Castile and later unified Kingdom of Spain.==rawing Commentaries===Originally in the HWS series, the Basque people is represented alongside the Castilan Spanish. But after much deliberation, I decided to represent them as a seperate culture in order to better present the Iberial Cultures in the final artbook. In regards to the equipment of the two Basque women here, they are typical of the 11th century western european armaments. These includes the mail shirt, conical helmet with nasal protection, though the distinctive face plate on the left is perhaps unique in Iberian peninsula. Just like the rest of the Iberian peninsula, Basque military of this period would have shown plenty of western european equipments (via France) as well as eastern equipments (via Iberian Muslims), though they were somewhat lighly armed to offer mobility, given the terrain and overall military tactic. As for the rest of the drawings, I wanted to portray a market scenery, inspired by another painting I saw which depicted tangerines.====Hope you guys like it