Hobo Chic.Maglor wandering MIddle-Earth steeped in melancholy and regret. Drawn for @minstrelmaglor. He cuts his hair with a knife. Sometimes kind folk donate clothing to him and he wears it but doesn’t look after it until, once again, he’s clothed in artful tatters.
The thing is? This hot-ass, kin-slaying, golden-voiced elf is from Valinor and he can make anything look good. He doesn’t mean to be so attractive and stylish, it just happens!
teeny-tiny ideas: ori & writing implements, fili, kili and/or kid!frodo vs. bilbo's sewing box, bombur + vase of punch/soup at elrond's (like the fountain scene), kid!elves vs thrandy's wine/hairbrush, teeny dwarves vs. tiny smaug in the hoard. for black sails: teeny flint strolling across a chart plotting ship's course, pocket silver. teeny thomas with actual!witch miranda (like the kitty verse but she shrunk him instead turning him into a kitten to smuggle him out), teeny teach.
So many good ideas! I drew the first one that captured my imagination!
X marks the spot. I really liked the prompt for Flint strolling across a chart but because I’m lazy I drew him doing a stereotypical pirate map. I like to think he’s going through all of this effort to make a decoy map for idiots. It’s hard to tell but the paperweight is a rock with a fossil in it. It seemed like the sort of thing Flint might have hanging around.
I used a reference for his inkwell and quill!
I actually inherited an inkwell and a real feather quill! I simplified the inkwell for the sketch but thought you might like to see a photo of the one I used as reference.
Late night snack. Bilbo likes to have a snack before bed but he may have bitten off more than he can chew! (I drew peanut butter cookies even tho I know peanuts weren’t around the Shire. XD I just like the criss-cross pattern you make with a fork on top!)
First real go at using the Iskn.co Slate! I used the ball point pen that came with the Slate to ‘ink’ a pencil sketch I had lying around. As you can see, my hands were a bit shaky and I think my paper shifted when I was working on the finer details of Bilbo’s face. Still figuring out how it all works! LOVE that you can export an MP4 of your work which is how I made this video! Rotated and cropped with iMovie.
Silver Queen. Day two of Tolkien Week is Immortal Race | Race/Different Cultures of Elves | Race Ainur and I chose to draw Celebrían, daughter of Galadriel and Celeborn, mother to Elladan, Elrohir, and Arwen, and the wife of Elrond.
I usually see her depicted as traumatized but I see Celebrían as a cheerful, social person who loves the world around her. Unlike her mother, she’s not concerned with power or war. She’s the sort who’d rarely be without company, laughs easily, and would dance naked in the rain. She and Elrond balance each other out and each delight in the differences between them.
Whether you follow the story of her being slain by orcs or tortured by orcs the event resulted in her leaving Middle-Earth and when that happened Rivendell became a quieter, more sombre place. Still peaceful… but no longer as full of light and laughter.
I like to imagine that when she and Elrond were reunited they hugged and never really let go; holding hands or hovering near each other, inseparable. Celebrían would have regained her bubbly nature; her spirit having been soothed and healed by her time in Valinor.
I also like to imagine Celebrían having prepared accommodations for Bilbo and Frodo and being very excited to meet them and hear their songs and stories. After all, Elrond and Bilbo were friends and that means there’s something wonderful about Bilbo because she knows her Elrond is a bit fussy about the company he keeps.
This was sketched with a 0.3mm Pentel mechanical pencil with HB lead on Paris Bleedproof paper. I tried to get her decorative head-gear to be reminiscent of butterflies. Check out those Record of the Lodoss war ears! I’m always back and forth with how I want to draw elf and hobbit ears.
Grump! Someone is a grumpy little blob of sunshine! Pencils and explanation here. He looks like he’s gonna ink on the next crab-dwarf that pinches his fat little tentacles!
My new little Wacom tablet is amazing! I haven’t used one for 5 years or so and the technology has gotten SO. GOOD! This was such a delight to ink and paint! Shoutout to @kyletwebster for the brushes I used! I bought a pack ages ago but haven’t really had a chance to appreciate them until now! I inked with a nib pen brush (behaves very similar to the real thing without me having to guesstimate the amount of ink I have loaded up! Amazing!) and a dry acrylic brush of some sort for the colours.
In epsiode 9 [NEIN] Jester said she has
to look pretty to visit the ~fancy~ part of town and that made me want
to draw her wearing lolita-inspired fashion! (The Japanese style not,
um, the book.)
