Thanks, Jaygee!

Glorfindel gets to do all the fun stuff. 🙁 He probably gets a later bedtime, too.

But Glorfindel's still cool, despite him being given special favors, so I did him as the subject of a drawing experimenting with a new angle which I'll probably never be using again because it was frustrating and didn't even turn out right after all the time I spent on it. 😛

And this was a challenge I decided to do while listening to Blind Guardian's Silmarillion album. During a single song, I would draw part of the scene off which the song was based, resulting in a full page of very rough sketches that were a lot of fun to do. Technically, once each song ended I was supposed to stop right away and lay down my pencil. But the one for "Nightfall" I couldn't resist adding a bit of extra time to. (Strangely enough, that one is my least favorite on the whole page, despite the extra few seconds I gave myself to finish.)
Clockwise from top left: Maedhros, Maeglin, Fingolfin, Nienor, and Feanor.

The one for "Harvest of Sorrow" is so light because I didn't know how long the song was and it was a lot shorter than I'd counted on it being. And then it started decelerating and I was like "OH SNAP I GOTTA WRAP THIS UP REALLY QUICK!!!" so I ended up leaving Turin completely out of the drawing. 🙄
"Thorn", on the other hand, was longer than I remembered and I finished the light sketch before the song was even halfway done, so I got to do a minimal amount of line-darkening. 😉
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LOL at the first one, and all the rest are great, too!

Thanks, Jaygee! The first one was a lot of fun and took somewhere between five and ten minutes, so that was awesome.

So I did another comic, this time by hand, and it took muuuch more than ten minutes to do...maybe an hour and a half or two hours, plus fifteen minutes for editing and layout? The comic relies rather heavily on a a couple of headcanons of mine, but they're rather too long to bore everybody with on here. But the summary is that I was wondering if Maedhros and Fingon had this sense of foreboding at their last meeting before Nirnaeth Arnoediad, seeing as how the High Elves who survived to the Third Age for LOTR can foresee the future sometimes (albeit usually vaguely). And these two are about as High-Elf as you can get (especially Maedhros, hahahaha, get it? Because of his height...Maedhros the Tall...okay, that was extremely lame, never mind).


(I have better-resolution versions of these, but they were too big to post on here, not to mention large enough to see the mistakes more clearly. 😆 )

I've learned that drawing dappled horses is a lot harder than I thought. If you don't do it exactly right, you come out with something that looks more like scales than anything else, hence the dragon-horse in the bottom left frame of the first page. 🙄
Also, Gypse or Teeny or anyone else who's ever done horseback riding (myself included) is probably going to call me out on how Maedhros dismounts. We're going to blame it on his inability to hold the saddle correctly, but it's actually because this is the first time I've ever drawn someone dismounting.
Also the proportions are off in pretty much the whole drawing, but it turned out better than I had thought it would, so it's fine for now. 😛

Hobbit of Narnia, it is clear that you are envisioning your characters in 3D rather than in freeze-frame 2D, it makes your drawings much more accurate. It's also great to see the attention to the wrinkles on the large bell sleeves. It's clear that you're really working hard on your drawings! Thanks for posting.

Awww, thank you, Hermit!

Another one-song drawing challenge (same album, mostly different songs).
Clockwise from top left: Fingon, Turgon, Beren, a random elf fighting a random orc, Maedhros

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So...about this...the joke came into my head and absolutely would not leave. I'm extremely sorry...I don't regret having done it exactly, but I am nonetheless apologizing because this was, in my opinion, probably the saddest scene in the entire book, and it felt really weird to make a joke out of it. (A special apology to Beleg and Turin themselves. I love you guys; I'm so, so sorry.) And no, I'm not an MLP fan. I've only seen like two episodes of the show in my life, and that only because I hang out with younger kids a lot.
Please nobody kill me.

Great work as usual, hobbit! (Somehow stopped getting notifications for this thread, so I'm late to the party.) The t-shirt one is funny. 😀
(And yes, links to images much be approved by admins, regardless of status.)

(Ah, okay. What should I do with the links I've already posted?)

(I recommend getting Tooky or White Rose to approve them. Graphics and art are their jurisdiction.)

(Alright. Thanks! 🙂 )

Soooo...I'm...not at all sorry for this, unless it's for the sloppiness of the drawing itself.
Alex and I were working on the song I wrote for Turin and Beleg, and he was doing the chords on the guitar and suddenly said, "...what if this was a Western ballad instead of a European ballad??" And then he started switching up the strums and even a couple of the chords and started singing in a cowboy accent. And thus this happened:

😆 Love it!

*blinks and snickers*

😆

Here I have non-Western Beleg and Túrin.
Buuuut the lyrics are still from a Western-ish movie (Dreamworks' "Spirit"), so I guess I just can't escape the cowboy-and-Indian theme. 😛

(I'm trying so hard to get better at colors...90-something percent of it is still me bluffing everything and hoping nobody'll notice. 🙄 Though this time I actually broke down and used a mirror to reference my face for shading when I got to Túrin.)
(But I did do the rest of the drawing without reference, as usual. I'm not that brave yet.)
(Also I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've tried the ghost-effect thing. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be. So that was nice.)

Digging the ghost effect! He looks so luminous and nicely semi-transparent!

Thank you! I might use it again sometime, because it was really fun...I just don't really know when I would use it. (Unless I do another of these two, of course.)

The way you colorized the shadows on the faces is very accurate. Keep up the good work!