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little unfinished gradient maps/colour balance/blending modes study
it was supposed to be Mairon; I've recently started liking the idea of him with white eyes
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a Galadriel sketch for @redrosesandcharmingsouls - thank you for the suggestion to draw her! ♡
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"i would die for you" this, "i'd walk through fire for you that"
what about "i'd live for you" romances? what about "i never thought i'd be worth the work it would take to piece myself together"?
what about "i don't believe i'm worth it, but for you i'll try"
Also, my personal favorite "I accepted that I was doomed long ago, but finding you makes me want to live again"
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Nerdanel for @tolkienwomensweek (a little late sorry)
Day 6: Heartbreak, The Second Stage Of Grief
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tintallë, the kindler
for day seven of @tolkienwomensweek
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Damn….
Random Maitimo/Maedhros i drew like a month ago and apparently I’m not going to render it further lol
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I have reposted this before but I am always impressed by how well-thought out every spot is. There is no good place to sit. “Oh, Eomer’s cool, I’ll sit with him” but then you will have to listen to Gollum and Bilbo the entire flight. “I’ll sit with Sam!” Pippin and Merry will be turning around the entire flight to talk to him. Sure, you can sit with Elrond, but you’re going to deal with him staring down Aragorn and Arwen. You may love Legolas and Gimli, but will you love sitting BETWEEN them? Just when you see a spot that seems okay, somewhere behind or across the aisle is a terrible option. This is so good. No good seats on the LOTR plane
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this year i will draw pictures
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some early sauron concepts from this summer before i finished with this one
baby mairon, maybe mordor-era sauron? post eregion? and third age sauron, looking like someone just dug him out of a ditch
i really wanted the second one to have a very snakey kind of vibe
might recycle these concepts and develop them further!!
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Day 4 of @tolkienwomensweek - The Green Dragon - Rosie Cotton
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"Celebrían often steels herself to recount the caves, the gaping holes in her head that keep her awake and uneasy, taking care to make them traversable for the listener, and they still look back at her as though she's just described the weather, as though she’d said nothing at all. The light stories reveal themselves as heavy. The heavy ones evaporate into meaninglessness. Why speak at all? Perhaps this is the reason for all the sexual dysfunction in Valinor: nobody knows how to carry their history. This, of course, is common when one has inherited too much: one rushes through the telling, or apologises before reaching the point, conscious that everything they have survived sounds implausible or excessive. It is unbearable to be listened to with carefully deferential attention, translated into something the world can stand to hear. Yet more unbearable is to not be heard at all."
Okay, back to the fun and sprightly illustration style for a combined @arafinwean-week + @tolkienwomensweek entry of the ever-cheeky Celebrían my forever beloved who cannot shut the fuck up, with the short hairstyle I always draw her sporting in Valinor. Featuring a quote from my stocking fic, in which Cel also muses as to whether, as a daughter of Galadriel, her pubes count as 'treelit-by-inheritance'. Speedpaint here.
(also, i made a little website for my art+commissions, where you can also see my current commissions queue and where you would be on it... mostly for the realistic 'oil' portraits, but there's a few of these illustrations as well, eg. the Valinor!Elrond pair to the Cel here - do have a look!)