Aww, thanks, guys.

I accidentally put the X-Elves on temporary hold while taking a few days' scenic road through the Silm fandom again, and so far I have two drawings from that:

Finrod and Sauron, a redraw of the scene I've already done...two times? Three maybe? What can I say, Lind Erebros' song of this part of the book is truly epic and every time I hear it I'm like "MUST DRAW."
(Did anyone else play with those little scratch-pad things as a kid, where you had a stylus and a shiny black piece of paper with bright colors underneath it? I figured out how to replicate that effect on this art program and I am Very Pleased. Although for some reason the image quality here is simply terrible.)

Young Erenion (aka. Gil-Galad) in the foreground, Fingon and older Gil-Galad in the background
In the Silm version of the canon (though perhaps not J.R.R. Tolkien's final decision), Gil-Galad's is the son of Fingon. (This picture is the first and second time I've drawn Gil-Galad, which is surprising since he's a favorite character of mine.)

I actually still have an unfinished scraper-foil from, like, high school.... I really need to actually do it. And it's a lion, for crying out loud.
Anyway. /Really/ like the way Finrod came out! So expressive! (Not that Sauron's Loki-grin /isn't/ chilling.)

@Ariel: Ooooh, yes, you should finish it!!
And thank you! Facial expressions are still something I assume I could get better at if I practiced enough, but sometimes I feel like I'm not improving.

The Silm scenic road turned into a Tolkien-in-general scenic road, but school has been taking up so much time that I only just got a chance to draw something really intentional today. Again, terrible quality. I'm not sure what's up with this laptop, but whenever I resize an image it turns out fuzzy. 🙄

(Have I ever mentioned how much I despise working with light sources? I despise working with light sources. I didn't think through the logistics of this picture until I'd finished the background and realized, "I'm going to need...THREE different light sources...all different colors...ouch." 😛 I can see that there are problems with the shadows and lighting, though I don't see exactly where they are--such is the result of still being too stubborn to use reference pictures except at the utmost need--so I set the picture as my laptop's desktop image, so I'll see it several times a day and ought to begin to see what needs touching up.)

OOH! I like it!

That looks amazing. I especially like the sky.

Awww, thanks Ariel and Nia! 😀
And yeah, the sky was fun.

Believe it or not, I still do traditional drawings too. This one I decided to color using pens...? I despise coloring with pen because they're very unforgiving (this is only the second time I've attempted it in the past few years). I also had only about a dozen colors to work with, and even so the scanner took away the redness of the sky and the metallic sheen to Fingolfin's armor, but oh well. 😛

Whoa... Your people look so good! (Also, that mace or hammer or whateve-it-is is /huge/! Looks like it should break his wrist, it’s that big and heavy!

Aww, thank you, Ariel!
Yeah...Grond. I've seen so many interpretations of that one silly hammer that it was impossible to block them all out in order to create my own design. In the end it looked simply enormous, but I hid behind the "Morgoth is a Vala, he can lift anything he wants!" excuse. 😛

"Morgoth is a Vala, he can lift anything he wants!"

Precisely! 😀

I was going to post pictures of my huge project directly to TLC... but I won't. It's late, I'm tired, and it's a lot of pictures! So, here's the link to the blog post that contains them all. https://lionessgraphics.wordpress.com/2018/05/02/art-original-fanart-21/ (Wordpress and my graphics blog are not affiliated with TLC. While I can guarantee that my content is a-okay, I have no idea what kind of ads will show up on the sides or at the bottom of my post. So, click at your own risk.)
I had made a two-tiered cake and decorated it with twenty-three decorated marshmallow tsum-tsum superheroes as well as a big, cake-pop-based Infinity Gauntlet set with marzipan Infinity Stones. It took eight days to make (the marshmallows dominating seven of those days) and was completed the night before the release of Avengers: Infinity War. (Don't worry: spoiler-free! Again, this happened before the movie was out and, besides, all of the costumes are based on prior MCU films.)
Feel free to ask any questions, should you feel so inclined. 🙂

Aw, that is so cute!

Thanks, Jaygee!

Oh.....my.........word. 😮 This is stunning, Ariel, and absolutely adorable at the same times!

I was pretty much aiming for those two words. 😉 Thanks, Hobbit!

Wow Hobbit! 😮 😯 AMAZING!