Thanks, Jaygee!

It's Hiro and Tadashi -- I mean... not. 😛
But it's so sweet! And TEN MINUTES?! HOW?!

Thanks, Ariel! 🙂
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I've been trying to get faster at drawing. 😛 I think the biggest things are 1: getting that initial sketch right, and 2: frequently, frequently practicing the more difficult things to draw (for me that would be hands, feet, and faces, so I draw just those a lot). And also with this particular drawing I did really simple shading and not much of it, so that cut out probably five minutes.

This one took...rather longer than ten minutes. I'm pretty sure it took half an hour at least, probably more. Because of shading and stuff. 😛 Aaaaand I'm still not 100% satisied with how it turned out (I'd give it a 70-something percent), but it was getting late and I didn't want to stay up, so I didn't tweak it as much as I'd have liked to. 😆

EDIT: Well...why not add this one, too.
It's my first Silmariallion fanart.

(Alex jokes about the the characters in my drawings having "Renaissance hands", aka. hands in useless, over-dramatic positions. I guess this drawing is kind of an example of that... 😆 )

Aragorn and Boromir... 🙁
Man, I wish my hair would look as fabulous as Feanor's in a breeze! 😛 (Also, lol to Alex's "Renaissance hands" comment!) Small critique here though (not like I'm really in any position to critique), but his nose looks rather pinched?

@hair: Right??? 😆 Elves...always with perfect, un-mussed hair...
@critique: Yes, I'm painfully aware of that. If I had a good eraser I'd probably fix it, but I'm not about to try with the eraser I've got. 🙄

So one of the things about the Silm is that there are so few quotes that can be used alongside a picture...and I like having those to fill in empty space...but hey, this way it gave me a chance to make a joke about it. 😛

(There should be a lot more armor on Fingolfin, but...well...I forgot about it until I was literally already in the shading process and went "OH SNAP!!" and quickly added as much as I could without having to start over completely. 😆 )

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Love that!

*giggles at the lack of quote*
Whoa. I dunno what it is, but something about Fingolfin's boots is capturing my attention. Maybe it's the shading? They just look so good! So does the rest of the picture, of course, but those boots. (Grk, I keep on typing "books".)

@Jaygee: 😆 Thanks!
@Ariel: Thanks so much! I wish I knew what I did with the boots so I could do it again. 😛 They're at a kind of unusual angle, too, so I wasn't sure how they'd turn out. (And 😆 )
Side note, though...Morgoth's boots were way, way fun. I have no clue why--maybe because it was because they're something that's the "wrong size" (being so large and heavy), and the novelty was what made them so much fun--but they were the fastest part of the drawing. (In hindsight, I also notice that I should have put more harsh shading on the one in the foreground.)

Anyway, here are those Silm "comic book" pages that took me way longer than they should have.

I strayed from the canon just a bit, for a couple of reasons. For one, it took long enough to finish this even without including Feanor's other sons and followers. Maybe we can just say they're "offscreen" in that first frame? 😕 But for another (maybe more importantly?), in the book Maedhros merely stood aside as the ships were burned rather than protesting, but I kind of like to imagine that he did at least a little more than that. So I gave him a nice cliche "NO!!" 😛

Here are links to the full-resolution images (without the borders or page numbers):

I clearly need to read TS again 'cause I have no memory of this event or of Maedhros being a ginger.
I /really/ like the second page and the frame of Feanor looking over his shoulder.
*stares longingly at those wonderful flowing cloaks and locks of hair* 😛

The scene moved pretty fast (it's just a couple of paragraphs, and easy to miss).
I didn't remember know he was a redhead either, until I looked up their Wikipedia pages to make sure beforehand that I didn't get the wrong mental images of them (like I did with Faramir...rrrrrrgh.....I still can't get used to him having dark hair). I don't even know if it mentions it in the book.
The hair. Was. So. Much. Fun. Very time-consuming, but way, way fun, and my favorite part to do by far. The ice, on the other hand, was a royal pain, and it took a long time and was boring and frustrating and refused to do what I wanted it to.

(I was surprised by how light the pages were when I moved the pictures of the Kindle onto the laptop. I'd done the whole thing on power-save mode, so everything was very dim.)

I'm sure I'd have an easier time remembering it if I'd read it more recently, but the one and only time I've read it was... at least five years ago, I'm sure.
So long as you had fun during all that time spent in the hair, right? 😀

Well, I've not even finished reading it my first time yet. So you're not doing too badly. 😆
Exactly! 😉

Love this! Wow, so poignant!

All of your drawings look awesome, Hobbit. You're amazing! 😯
Edit: Here's a drawing I did of Eowyn and the Witchking... A drawing-ish, that is. It's kind of like a silhouette... IDK. XD Also, my camera blurred it... I dunno why. Hope you like it. 🙂

Aww, thanks, guys!

@Gypse: 😮 That is amazing!! (I'm loving the Witch-King's boots...)