Crawling across the image
Added 2020-02-04 14:56:43 +0000 UTC... and sharpening my pencil literally every minute.
... and questioning my decision to put them all in plate armour. Artistically and historically. But I can't pass over the opportunity to show off the sort of craftsmanship that shortened Fëanor's twelve-year exile. XD
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Ah, I strongly disagree with that idea, but you probably knew that. :)
Jenny Dolfen
2020-02-04 17:48:13 +0000 UTCMaitimo... he kneled as Prince and rose up as King. Pity, for a short time. So pity. I'm sure he would have been better King then Fingolfin.
Yollie
2020-02-04 17:34:09 +0000 UTCThe closest of the bonds in all of Middle Earth. In multiple senses of the word.
Steven Tryon
2020-02-04 16:50:39 +0000 UTCI'm still debating what to make how brilliant. My initial idea was to make Fëanor burn white-hot (which he should be as he's about to fall to ash), but I haven't ruled out just making the soul bright. I don't like harsh contrasts in watercolour, but there'll be a modicum of them here, of course. :)
Jenny Dolfen
2020-02-04 15:23:17 +0000 UTCThought: Have you considered painting in high contrast due to the brilliance of his passing soul? Bright highlights but deep black crisp shadows? Would be striking and appropriate but also save you a lot of pencil details 😅 (ex - foreground sons would be mostly silhouette, Maglor might be in a fair amount of shadow behind Maedhros depending on where you put the fiery source of light.).
Jessica K
2020-02-04 15:16:28 +0000 UTCHe'll be. I'll bust him up later; and he'll end up with a lot of very serious burns...
Jenny Dolfen
2020-02-04 15:14:10 +0000 UTCThe one thing I can't stop thinking about are Fëanor's wounds - for the moment he seems pretty unscathed in the lineart. And yet "Fëanor bade them halt; for his wounds were mortal" - so he should be in a pretty bad shape, shouldn't he?
tzigi
2020-02-04 15:12:59 +0000 UTC
