Ossiriand – Lineart cleanup

I figured I might just as well detail my process of cleaning lineart, since people keep asking how I do it. As you know, I usually sketch digitally, and then print out my sketch in a very light, very saturated colour onto Bristol board. Then I use those messy coloured lines as guidelines and draw [...]

@темы: sketch, tolkien, horse, art, drawing, silmarillion, how-to, maedhros, lineart

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Ossiriand

So Maedhros sat me down today and had a little chat with me. M: So, Jenny, you’ve what? drawn me killing myself, begging forgiveness on my knees, writhing in pain, and committing the act of greatest folly of my life? J: I… suppose that about sums it up. M: So, whatever next? J: Actually… I [...]

@темы: sketch, tolkien, art, silmarillion, maedhros

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*Now* it ends in flame.

When before, let’s face it, it ended in coffee. So, since painting “It ends in flame”, I’ve been wanting to do a more fiery version that your average coffee allows. Thanks to liquid watercolours, this now works much better.

@темы: tolkien, art, painting, silmarillion, maedhros, maedhros death, watercolour

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Thy son has returned

After “All the others, gone” sparked heaps of discussions on the rebirth, re-embodiment and return of Elves who died… … this absolutely needed to be done. No doubt Maedhros spent a long time in the Halls of Mandos, while his mother remained alone in Valinor – her husband and her seven sons, gone. Eventually, Maedhros [...]

@темы: sketch, tolkien, art, silmarillion, maedhros, nerdanel

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Unspoken Resentment

I seem to be one of the few people who always assumed that, when Fingon had rescued Maedhros from Thangorodrim, he took him with him to the people of Fingolfin. It’s always made sense for me. He would have wanted to keep him close, and he wouldn’t have been welcome to stay in the F

@темы: sketch, tolkien, art, silmarillion, fingon, turgon

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F

Exam marking season is upon me. I’m doomed. Uh yes, he’ll have armour in the final. It’s… just so I get his anatomy right. You know? Like so. I like Gothmog’s reflection there in the shoulderplate.

@темы: sketch, tolkien, art, battle, silmarillion, F, balrog

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All the others, gone

A missing moment that I hadn’t even seen until now – we all know that Finarfin came briefly to Beleriand to lead the Noldor of Valinor into battle against Morgoth in the War of Wrath. Has it ever occurred to anyone how painful it must have been to finally be reunited with his daughter – [...]

@темы: walkthrough, sketch, coffee, tolkien, art, painting, silmarillion, finarfin, galadriel, how-to, tutorial

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One Maglor, please. Milk, two sugars.

So, decided to look into coffee painting today. Really handles a lot like watercolour, only stains more and does very interesting things at the edges. Forms harder edges too. Background painted in leftover of hubby’s morning coffee (Onko, der Milde), figure in Jacobs Instant Espresso. I’ll definitely be doing more with this.

@темы: coffee, tolkien, art, painting, silmarillion, maglor

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It ends in flame – progress

That other picture I had lying is taking shape: The final moment of Maedhros. First, as this seems to have become the thing to do, I’ll share the 1995 version. Yes, I was prolific in 1995. Note Maedhros’ clothes. I can only surmise that this is what I understood by “they disguised themselves” – he [...]

@темы: walkthrough, tolkien, art, drawing, silmarillion, maedhros, maedhros death

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The Oath of F

As always, my lineart is drawn in pencil on Bristol board, scanned, and printed out on watercolour paper. (For any questions on that process, see my FAQ above!) This one proved to be the toughest watercolour I’ve ever done. I actually did a watercolour thumbnail before painting, trying to work out how much paint to [...]

@темы: walkthrough, tolkien, art, painting, silmarillion, F, how-to, maglor, maedhros, amras, amrod, caranthir, celegorm, curufin, watercolour

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The Oath of F

Then F

@темы: sketch, tolkien, art, silmarillion, F, maglor, maedhros, amras, amrod, caranthir, celegorm, curufin

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Rescue – sketch

This one really was long overdue. I like the raw, painful sketchiness of it – makes it look as if it was a quick one, even though I spent the entire day erasing and redrawing. Fingon taking Maedhros back to Mithrim after his rescue (Thorondor’s right wing can be seen in the background). Most depictions [...]

@темы: sketch, tolkien, art, drawing, gouache, silmarillion, maglor, maedhros, fingon

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Sealing Maedhros’ fate – walkthrough

I’ve split the previous post, so that it now contains only the thoughts about the picture. Now here’s the creation process for the image “Sealing Maedhros’ fate”. The sketch was made in Photoshop. I like sketching digitally; it allows me to move around people or groups of people, flip images to check the averse effect, [...]

@темы: walkthrough, sketch, tolkien, art, drawing, gouache, pastel, silmarillion, how-to, maglor, maedhros, amras, amrod, caranthir, celegorm, curufin, pastel paper

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Those missing moments

I’m re-reading the Silmarillion again (for the first time in fifteen years, cover to cover) and find myself delightfully stumbling over those little scenes in between that aren’t there – and yet are. One of the reasons why I can’t listen to the audiobook. I want to pause it after every other sentence, to give [...]

@темы: walkthrough, sketch, tolkien, art, drawing, gouache, pastel, silmarillion, how-to, maglor, maedhros, amras, caranthir, celegorm, curufin

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Yavanna, Giver of Fruits

It’s incredible how this new sketchbook and gouache technique is breaking through blockades. I suddenly find myself grabbing sketchbook and pencil again on a whim, like reading a passage and thinking, “Oh, I’ll do Yavanna!” Not, “What colours will I use? What format? What pose will I put her in? And why not do Maedhros [...]

@темы: tolkien, art, drawing, gouache, silmarillion, yavanna