This One Always Lives Rent Free In My Head. It Also Pops Up In The Weirdest Moments. Like When I Start

Nelyafinwe Maitimo Curufinwion (Maedhros Feanorion), when he was still young and happy in Valinor. I don't know why but I have always pictured him with short hair.

Quick sketch (about 30 min) on infinite painter.

Fingolfin’s Challenge - 14 year redraw edition

This drawing, and this moment, mean so much to me. I first drew this scene 14 years ago, and when I uncovered the old drawing a few months ago, I knew I had to redraw it. Old drawing and close ups are under the cut:

When I was 12 this was the best drawing I had ever done. The original concept was to have the map behind him because I don’t like doing landscapes and never have. For the new drawing, I decided against writing out the place names over the mountains for fear that it would be too cluttered. I also decided to change the shield design to a more Norman style incorporating his heraldry and I replaced the greaves with boots for purely aesthetic reasons. I KNOW he should be wearing a helm and it’s in the text I literally transcribed, but I do not care because seeing his hair is important to me. I *might* draw him in a helm in the future. If the universe wills it so.

More close-ups of the new drawing:

Dimensions are 18x24” and the media are watercolor, india ink, fineliner and gel pen. Writing the whole passage took over two hours and I got *so* emotional. fjggjgghkvhk *clawing at the bars of my enclosure*

I have no idea how many hours I spent on it in total but I have been tinkering on it for 3 months.

I was really afraid that I made him look too old by trying to render his facial expression. I am also concerned that I haven’t captured the full depth of his emotion. But I tried my fucking bestest and that’s all that one can do. If I am still a fingolfucker in another 14 years I will draw him again and it will be even better <3

Brynden Rivers and Shiera Seastar, my two problematic faves, saying goodbye.

(Or, more accurately, Shiera is threatening Brynden with aeons of torture if he dares to do something as dumb as dying, because she will have to find another one to make jealous and boss around and she has no time to do so.)

In my mind this may have happened before the Targaryen forces left to fight in the first Blackfyre Rebellion. (Yes I know that there is no Weirwood in King's Landing but sometimes aesthetic wins over accuracy)

Pencil sketch of W. S. Burroughs because I have the flu on New Year's Eve and I'm home reading Naked Lunch

Quick painting of Elros and Elrond as children playing by a stream. I needed to paint something cute and fun after spending an unreasonably long amount of time detailing horrible wounds on the last one. Also I have to work on my backgrounds so it was an interesting painting exercise.

Arual the Dreamer leaves Alagadda as she begins the Metamorphosis of her Third Birth.

"Lord Tytos Blackwood met him in the outer ward, mounted on a destrier as gaunt as himself. Very tall and very thin, the Lord of Raventree had a hook nose, long hair, and a ragged salt and pepper beard that showed more salt than pepper. In silver inlay on the breastplate of his burnished scarlet armor was a white tree bare and dead, surrounded by a flock of onyx ravens taking flight. A cloak of raven feathers fluttered from his shoulders"

Young padawan Obi-wan sitting on the floor with Qui-Gon's cloak.

Quick and loose painting of my favorite jedi.

The unholy alliance of exams-related stress and skyrocketing temperatures (really, 40 degrees Celsius is a bit much even for my summer-loving self) sent me on a trip down memory lane, right into the Star Wars fandom.