RDR2s Arthur Morgan Shows His Dark Side In Detailed Pencil Art

RDR2’s Arthur Morgan Shows His Dark Side In Detailed Pencil Art

A recent piece of hand-drawn Red Dead Redemption II fan art is making the rounds online. The sketch focuses on Arthur Morgan’s darker characteristics.

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A stunning piece of hand-drawn Red Dead Redemption II fan art has recently been unveiled online, pleasing fans of the seminal open-world adventure game. The illustration is just one of many works of fan art inspired by Rockstar’s 2018 title in recent years, with artists having a tendency to lean towards photorealism with pencil sketches of characters like Arthur Morgan.

Red Dead Redemption II is perhaps best known for its gritty, unyielding narrative alongside its cast of memorable and complex characters. Players take on the role of Arthur Morgan, a rugged outlaw wrestling with the messy and frustrating realities of living with the Dutch Van der Linde gang. Throughout the course of the game, Arthur engages in a handful of less-than-savory activities, often exhibiting a callous and unempathetic demeanor towards those in his way. While players have some degree of control over just how morally straight Arthur is via the game’s Honor system, he is mostly a pre-defined character similar to other video game anti-heroes like Joel from the The Last of Us games. Arthur’s complexity, cynicism, and brutality have led some gamers to prefer him over Red Dead Redemption’s John Marston, the beloved protagonist from the previous game.

When a character is as revered as Arthur Morgan, they are likely to inspire a good amount of fan art. One of the latest Arthur-inspired pieces comes from a Redditor calling themselves ragneidr. The impressive sketch features a close-up portrait of Arthur in the upper-left, with another image of him executing an enemy in the bottom-right. There is also a rendition of his grave marking. The title of the post mentions that the image is being shared “for those who have forgotten that [Arthur] is far from an angel.”

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See the original post on Reddit here.

The black-and-white pencil sketch and the image’s faint vignette will look familiar to those who have played Red Dead Redemption II; whether intentional or not, ragneidr’s drawing is reminiscent of the game’s many loading screens and title cards modeled after Arthur’s notebook, which he often writes in after some of Red Dead Redemption II’s disturbing missions. This parity between the sketch and the in-game aesthetic makes this a great supplement to the best-selling title.

Between ragneidr’s critical title and the drawing’s focus on Arthur’s violent tendencies, it is clear that this piece means to draw attention to the character’s dark side. After all, Arthur Morgan kills, maims, and brutalizes countless characters over the course of the game’s story. Red Dead Redemption II is clearly not interested in depicting black and white characters, so Arthur’s moral ambiguity is sure to lead to further discussion and thoughtful art pieces as time goes on.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/red-dead-redemption-2-arthur-morgan-pencil-art/

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