10/27/2017 – Where The Shadows Lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them;
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them,
In the land of Mordor, where the shadows lie.
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In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall be not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night!
Galadriel, Lady of Light, painted in my sketchbook tonight as a return to Tolkien-flavour stuff. I used to do so much of it! It’s coming back. (Done in gouache and coloured pencils.)
Celebrimbor and Annatar from Shadow of Mordor by
Paul Tobin
The Mirror of Galadriel.
My @tolkiensecretsanta2017 gift for @banner-bearer ! A small bird suggested that you’d like this brother duo: Maedhros and Maglor! 🙂 🙂
Happy holidays ! I hope you like the japanese samurai and bard? vibes. ❤
IT’S HERE
2017 was an interesting year for me for sure. I placed animal art on the backburner and tried practicing people… or rather humanoids more. I’d like to say i’m a lot more adept at drawing people than I was at the beginning of this year! But human anatomy is still a bitch and a half to sketch out lol. And they still come out looking like…goblins sometimes. But hopefully they’ll look better next year. Still plan on trying to balance animal and people art, as I love doing both.
Tolkien’s color pencil sketch of Smaug means a lot to me, not least that it was the cover of my first Hobbit book and I was convinced, pre-reading, that that twisty flying thing WAS The Hobbit. With feathery red plumes on its head and a little smiley face where Smaug’s chin is.
But I digress. Check out Tolkien’s notes on the margins. “Bard the Bowman should be standing after release of arrow at extreme left point of the piles”, “Dragon should have a white naked spot where the arrow enters”, and best of all, “The moon should be a _crescent_: it was only a few nights after the New Moon on Durin’s Day”. Oh Tolkien you wonderful nerd.
YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!
Made this some time ago for a very good friend of mine. He’s like my own personal Gandalf.
The Valar thrust through the Door of Night beyond the Walls of the World, into the Timeless Void~.// And before Dagor Dagorath something happened in Valinor, no one realized Melkor was gone.
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