Patreontober #22 - "Tevildo" (cats and ravens and ink, oh my)
Added 2023-10-22 05:53:00 +0000 UTCTevildo is one of those weird atavisms in the legendarium. Like Tinfang Warble. I've never tried to draw him, as I'm a cat person, and it was always a hard sell for me how a precursor of Sauron could be a cat. Obviously, as good usually equals beauty in Tolkien, Tevildo can't be a majestic, sleek, beautifaul black cat. The only halfway scary thing about his description are his whiskers, so I went from there. I tried to make him look a little less like a Sphinx version of Grumpy cat, but that, alas, was not to be. 😂 Sorry, Troels!
Page three filling! This is so immensely satisfying.
Aaaalso, first personal piece this month! I never really had this problem before, that I was locked up in Inktober and still felt the need to do personal pieces on the side, but that's Critical Role for you.
I found a new favourite brush in my new brush set (yes, that happens too! =D) I've been trying to find space (literally) to record a proper video for weeks so I can release my new watercolour brush set, but my husband has covered the entire living room table with tax papers, so it'll be a bit longer before I can release that.
Comments
Marilyn R. Pukkila, a retired librarian, found this in a letter written by Tolkien to George Sayer in March of 1966: "I am about to acquire, or should I say solicit the association of, a Cat." This, plus Tolkien's poem "Cat", provide evidence that Tolkien had at least one cat and knew a lot about cats, and perhaps didn't hate cats as much as everyone tells me he did.
Bonnie Marques
2023-10-22 17:55:52 +0000 UTCTevildo still looks cute to me (I have a black cat named Bagheera...Tevildo might have been a better name considering that he broke my Elrond statue) so Tolkien's lost, our gain.
Jess Holy
2023-10-22 16:40:12 +0000 UTC
