Nomnom Bacon. I keep adding to the Raven-borne Messages series on AO3 and this week it is Bard who receives an invitation to Thorin and Bilbo’s wedding!

Invitation for Bard - ficlet on AO3!

That’s Roac trying to eat a strip of streaky bacon on King Bard’s sofa. Have you ever tried to pull a piece off of a strip of raw streaky bacon? It’s like an elastic band made out of meat!

I had a really hard time drawing the raven in proportion to the sofa. (Is that a sofa for ants?)  I mean, ravens are already two feet tall and the Ravenhill ravens are supposed to be bigger than that? He looks far too big. I think if I ink this, I’ll have to scale Roac down about 15% to make him fit the sofa better.

*Foofs Aggressively* Yeah, that’s a foofy raven. All foofin’. Ridin’ around on Thorin’s shoulder and floofy-foofin’ at any elves she sees. While I was eating breakfast this morning I also wrote a Bagginshield fic that features this raven.

Just sort of mucking about with different ways to ink and colour and trying out  different brushes. The original pencil sketch was from 2016 and is one of my first attempts at drawing Thorin. (Which is why it was never properly finished off. First efforts are always a bit embarrassing. XD) This is just a screen shot of the upper-right corner of the full sketch.

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Snugglebugs.