I’m so sorry for what I do to the English language. XD
Here! Have some inking practice! Fili with his Flareon, Topaz. It has nothing to do with the story above. I’m just having fun inking.
See more posts like this on Tumblr
#the hobbit #fanart #fanfiction #elrond #troc #ravens #hobbit pokemon au #moosefrogart #moosefrogficMore you might like
Train them with love. The lurverly @tea-blitz requested another Hobbit/Pokémon crossover with hobbits as last time I drew Bilbo with hobbits, it was him chasing off a troublesome bulbasaur and she felt hobbits and Pokémon would get on! :D I wanted to draw Bilbo obviously loving and being loved by his Pokémon!
Other Pokémon AU pics include:
Hoarding and Chasing. Thranduil and a small sample of his hoard of fairy-type pokémon! They help him keep Mirkwood enchanted and confuse unsanctioned visitors. He lets them run loose wherever they please and often he finds the smallest of them like to be near him at all times.
Bilbo, and most hobbits, on the other hand don’t really care much for keeping pokémon. Or maybe it’s just that Bilbo doesn’t like it when bulbasaurs eat his prize tomatoes! Shoo! Shoo you naughty thing!
Not going to lie, I’m really looking forward to colouring the Thranduil picture; there’s going to be so much PINK! What I’ve posted here is only half of the Thranduil picture.
I’m sort of meh about how I’ve drawn Bilbo but the bulbasaur I’m rather proud of. When I go to ink that picture I’ll likely adjust the Bilbo lineart.
Prizewinners. You do not get prize-winning tomatoes by being soft on bulbasaurs! It is best, if you get one of those huge pests in your garden, to take a broom to it’s backside and gently, but firmly, shoo it away.
If you do not immediately do this, a single bulbasaur can strip every tomato off of your tomato vines in less than ten minutes! They’ll even eat the vines if you are not careful! Such pests!
Thankfully they’re fairly docile creatures and they don’t much like straying into town. But every now and again you’ll get a young one who is curious about the taste of tomatoes!
They seem to especially like Bag End. Or Bilbo. Of course, no self-respecting hobbit would be caught training a pokémon! Hobbit life had no room for battling and training and there certainly wasn’t much room in a hobbit hole for a pokémon!
Thranduil and his Fairy-types
Thorin and his Growlithe
Has this obsession with mashing together Pokémon Go and The Hobbit ended with this pic? [Spoiler alert: probably not] I think I need to try a new Photoshop brush. Not quite liking this one. What I really need to do is write down the brushes I’ve use so I can find the one I want again! XD
Flower Crown. Elrond is just as comfortable in a flower crown as he is one made of metal. But who made him this one? Was the keeper of his passion, his wife? A hobbit he considers a dear friend? Or perhaps Galadriel is visiting and she made it for him; a whimsical gift that reminds her of her daughter and amuses her grandchildren?
Or perhaps this is a younger Elrond, still Gil-Galad’s herald, who was gifted this flower crown by a talented Silvan elf, Thranduil son of Oropher who wished to give a token to the young half-elf he’d met briefly in Doriath before its fall?
Or maybe Elrond made it himself because it pleased him to do so and he enjoys seeing Rivendell’s residents smile when they see him and hurry off to make crowns of their own.
This started off as a sketch, pencil on paper. I scanned it and inked it in photoshop. At first, it was only his head and a bit of his collar that I’d drawn. Then I decided to get brave and I digitally drew his robes and flower crown! I’m really more of an illustrator than a painter but I had fun blooping colours then refining the bloops into flowers and clothes!
BONUS CONTENT! I realized I had screenshots of my progress on this pic because I was spamming a friend with them in chat… so I made a gif!
Elrond the Herald. Inspired by this post! Which I think someone had reblogged with a tag saying they could see Elrond wearing it. (IF THAT WAS YOU WHO REBLOGGED IT PLEASE HIT ME UP WITH THE LINK TO YOUR POST PLEASE! SO I CAN GIVE YOU CREDIT!)
Anyhow, Elrond when he was herald for Gil-galad! Man, those second age fashions sure were something, huh?
Painting is so hard, especially without line art! I used Photoshop and a couple of Kyle’s brushes: Oil detail brush 30px and the Oil lush brushes mostly. My second digital painting of 2018 and, really, ever. XD The only reference I used was the headless mannequin and puzzling over photos of Elrond’s head. There’s no way I could paint Hugh’s face accurately so I tried to just use some of the more defining features and hand-wave the rest.
If you have any good painting tutorials please send them my way!
Bonus gif under the cut!
Thorin’s getting hitched and that means even Thranduil gets a heads up about the big event. But what is this? Two ravens have messages for the Mirkwood King? Thranduil doesn’t have enough wine for this nonsense.
This part of the series took me five-ever to write and it’s the biggest part, by far.
No finished art update today because I prioritized finishing this fic but here’s a preview of Thursday’s pic post which will be inked and coloured!
Why yes! It IS Vampire Bilbo with his little familiar, Bat Frodo! XD They are off to a Halloween party! They’re gonna bob for apples and eat cakes and tell spoooky stories about haunted turnips!
How you doin’? More for that hockey AU verse I’ve been doodling in! Before Thranduil played hockey, his father made him take up the traditionally elven sport of figure skating. (It had been all the rage in Valinor! Hockey is strictly a Middle Earth game. Probably started by the Noldor.)
Maedhros and Maglor, trying to raise Elrond and Elros ‘correctly’ by elven standards had enrolled the twins in figure skating. If Fëanor had been alive, he would’ve benched both of their butts for not pushing the boys into hockey but, by that time, Maedhros and Maglor were sick to death of their father’s #hockeylife and his obsession with winning back the Simaril Cup the boys were spared. (At least, until Elros saw his first hockey game and begged them for months until they finally relented and let them play.)
Anyhow, Elros probably wanted out of figure skating because Elrond kept flirting outrageously with Thranduil, SILVER KING OF ICE, who at the time was an arrogant (sekritly shy af), enigmatic prince with an overbearing parent’s expectations to live up to off the ice and a ticking time bomb of unrealized eros on the ice!
Elrond always had liked puzzles. >:D
Like I needed an excuse or a backstory to draw elves ice dancing?!
Drawn with a regular HB pencil on scrap copy paper. Such ignoble materials to draw immortal future lords but, hey, I feel Elrond at least would appreciate the humbleness?
First off, thank you to everyone who has liked or reblogged my art this year! I started in April and posted twice a week, every week, until sometime this fall! In 2017 I created more fanart than I had done in the ten years prior! So, thank you, for encouraging me to keep going.
I couldn’t possibly include all of the art I created this year in my summary so I picked twelve of my favourite, non-sketch Hobbit pieces (and it was hard to pick!):
01. Captain of the Erebor Ravens 02. thorin_dramatic_pose.psd 03. Bilbo of Erebor 04. Flower Crown 05. Treat or Treat! 06. Bilbo’s had enough of your nonsense 07. Grump 08. Mirkwood’s #1 Trainer 09. Teeny Tiny Thorin Comics 10. What if Hobbits were potato people? 11. Gifts from a Dwarven King 12. Train Them With Love
I’m not 100% sure what I’ll be doing for 2018 or in what fandom(s). The Hobbit was a lot of fun but my takes on the characters/subject matter didn’t seem to resonate with very many people. Or maybe there aren’t a lot of people who like AUs in The Hobbit fandom? (Considering 90% of what I create is AU… Haha Imma never stop!) Or… maybe I just need to up my art game which is totally valid! I found that after a few weeks of producing work I quickly settled into an ‘art rut’ that I never managed to break out of.
I’ll figure it out eventually but in the meantime I think I’ll be concentrating on learning new art techniques, experimenting more, and maybe posting less ‘finished’ works and more of my art struggles and sketches in 2018.
Thank you, again. I feel so accomplished and satisfied this year! I almost feel like I am a creative person, again.
Year in review template from yorunaka on Deviant Art. According to Google. XD
ALTSnugglebugs.