Dragon Warrior monsters cross stitch 27: Demon Knight

A skeleton so evil he’s entirely black. Or is he a shadow? I don’t really know, but I always thought he was pretty badass. It seemed a pretty bold move to color a dude entirely black. I suppose by the time Dragon Warrior was released in North America I had probably played Zelda II as it’d come out nearly a year previous and featured a duel with “Link’s Shadow” who is also an entirely black version of another character. I remember this Demon Knight much more vividly, but that’s probably because I was never any good at Zelda II.

The stitching of this particular monster presented a dilemma. All previous monsters have been stitched with black outlines. These outlines do not appear in the game as all the fights occur against a backdrop or on an entirely black screen. Outlines were a necessity if I wanted some of these monsters to show up on the white fabric I had. A dark monster such as this doesn’t require an outline, but every other monster I’ve stitched has one. For consistency I decided to add a superfluous outline to the Demon Knight and the end result is he looks a bit puffy.

Oh well.

Colors used (DMC)

310 – Black