Catch me if you can (digital sketch)
Added 2018-10-05 17:20:23 +0000 UTCI have doodled a bit with ink and graphite, but nothing worth showing yet; I do hope to get one or two graphite pieces done anyway. There's a Feanor on the workbench, as well as a piece of Northern German legend that i have always been fond of: The Rider on a White Horse, who'll appear on the dyke during a storm flood.
In the meantime, here's a quick and fun movement sketch for a commission for Ian: Éowyn and Faramir. Never race your bride if she's a daughter of Rohan, and expect to win. ;)
Horses heavily referenced from colorize-stock on deviantart. I tried to shoot some ref of my daughter, but the little shetland ponies she rides just aren't the right fit, dynamics-wise!
New Patron - a warm welcome to Mari! And huge thank yous are in order for several people who have upped their pledges rather than reducing them. Really, guys, I'm so happy to see this! When I took the step last month to make it a "Pay what you want, no idea what you'll get" thing, I told myself that I'd happily settle for a much reduced monthly income, and expected a 50 percent drop. The drop has been tiny indeed - thank you all so much!
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Éowyn is my favorite character, I am so excited for this piece!
Gwendolyn
2018-10-11 11:44:05 +0000 UTCaaaaaaa my original favourite couple of Tolkien (before I discovered the Silmarillion anyway) and they still hold such a special place in my heart. I always imagined them living in Ithilien with Legolas as their next-door neighbour on one side and Aragorn in Minas Tirith on the other and doing exactly this on their weekends :D
Evelyn Maire
2018-10-05 22:46:58 +0000 UTCThank you! I'm off to find it!!
Alexis A Heit
2018-10-05 18:30:45 +0000 UTCWe all love you, Jenny. And I am personaly quite happy to order a comission too apart from supporting you here :)))
Yollie
2018-10-05 18:27:48 +0000 UTCBoth, yes. A shame that it's deemed to difficult... and a pity that it actually is. I remember that a lot of the things that I read at school when I was twelve to thirteen - Gustav Adolfs Page, Der eingebildete Kranke, der Schimmelreiter - really were quite tough for me already, and I was an avid reader that was well-versed in mythology and old-fashioned literature. Children no longer read these things, and are no longer able to, in 98% of cases.
Jenny Dolfen
2018-10-05 18:26:22 +0000 UTCPity? Shame...
Wiltraud Potrawa
2018-10-05 18:22:01 +0000 UTC@ Alexis, look here about the legend: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rider_on_the_White_Horse" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rider_on_the_White_Horse</a> @Jenny: Alles gut. Gerne. :-D
Wiltraud Potrawa
2018-10-05 18:19:37 +0000 UTC😍😍
ianflyhi アイアン
2018-10-05 17:58:59 +0000 UTCOooh this is so promising!!! I love the idea and I'm looking forward to seeing how it will evolve :D
Litsen
2018-10-05 17:55:09 +0000 UTCNo, it's an eighteenth-century German legend/novel by Theodor Storm. It recounts the story of Hauke Haien, a young orphan in a small village on the North Sea who comes up with a new and better way to build dykes that can withstand any flood; superstition and obstinacy of the population mean that he fails to convince them to built dykes in this way, even more so when he buys a white horse from a stranger, at the same time that a skeleton that has lain on an island just off shore suddenly disappears. One night, a storm comes and threatens to sweep away the village. The dyke he has built holds, despite the people's skepticism, but his wife and daughter drown in the flood. In despair, he drives his horse into the waves, begging God to take him and spare his family. (He spares neither.) It is told that, after Hauke's death, the horse skeleton suddenly reappeared on the Hallig, and the people at the shores say that everytime there is a storm flood, they see a rider on a white horse riding across the dyke.
Jenny Dolfen
2018-10-05 17:52:58 +0000 UTCI love you, Jenny. Hand in there.
Steven Tryon
2018-10-05 17:25:25 +0000 UTCBeautiful horses Jenny! Can't wait to see what you do next! What's the legend? Is it the Wild Hunt?
Alexis A Heit
2018-10-05 17:25:20 +0000 UTC
