My attempt at painting a Malaysian icon, Hang Tuah, perhaps the most famous and legendary figure in this part of the world. He lived in Melacca in the 15th century, and was an admiral loyal to his sultan. In fact so loyal that after the sultan unfairly tried to kill him, he still obeyed the sultan's order to kill his (Hang Tuah's) best friend.
The woman is supposed to be the Puteri Gunung Ledang, the princess of Mount Ledang, another famous character.
I hope no one thinks I screwed it up so much it's disrespectful! Let me know if I got something wrong. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_Tuah
I have to write a few more words here, because a free upvote bot I like to use counts the words, not the images. Which to me feels a little unfair towards visual artists (and musicians and dancers!) in favor of writers, but whatever. It requires 120 words. Hope I'm up to that now. :)
Also, tomorrow morning I leave on a company retreat over the weekend, so I'll be MIA until Sunday night.
Thanks for watching!
Links to some of my other art:
