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The Crescent Guard
A fencer in a blue and violet jacket holds a blade across the body beneath a turquoise crescent. The companion sketch traces the lifted chin and steady, gloved grip.
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A fencer lifts their chin towards the upper right, with warm coral light on the face and violet shadows across a blue fencing jacket. One gloved hand grips the sword below a polished cup guard. The blade angles up across the body, and a thin turquoise crescent curves out from behind the fencer’s hair against the scarlet background.
The companion sketch shows how the same composition was built, with loose strokes around the hair and shoulder and denser hatching beneath the chin and along the glove.
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