*cough* Did I say only?
I really, really love how this one is turning out. And I'm happy that I used all my new greys so harmoniously here.
Listening to Bill Bryson's Th...
2019-03-27 17:48:45 +0000 UTC View Post
You're in for a treat. Or maybe lasting damage. Proceed with caution.
I love seeing how artists solve the "golden" problem, particularly with a disgusting creature like Glaurung. I deci...
2019-03-27 12:06:25 +0000 UTC View Post
This stage is where the tying together and groundwork ends, and the fun begins. There's an overall colour and value transition that'll allow Glaurung and Fingon to stand out from the rest, I can le...
2019-03-27 10:37:18 +0000 UTC View Post
The colour scheme here owes itself to two things: first, the desire to do something pastelly/smoky/semi-opaque... and well, the fact that I just got myself a few pastelly, smoky, semi-opaque new pa...
2019-03-25 19:04:14 +0000 UTC View PostWhoa! We got in 170 people who'll all get a shiny Maedhros pin in April! \o/
Patreon seems to have messed up in a big way; while I have 170 people showing in the right tier, Patreon only give...
2019-03-25 16:48:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I wasn't happy with the Fëanor pin design - the lines were very blurry, and I didn't like the way you looked straight up his nose, hee. Now he's redone with neat Lazy Nezumi lines, and a bet...
2019-03-24 19:39:31 +0000 UTC View Post
This rarely happens, but I can't seem to think of a (non-humorous) title. The original quote is too long and lacks short, snappy title material. Any ideas?
Welcome to new Patron
I love this piece already! So glad I got on it.
Remember the suggestion, by many, of doing a Celebrimbor? I've just been part of a great Twitter thread what I realised that Celebrimbor ...
2019-03-23 10:11:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I just love drawing crazed-looking dragons. When I was younger, I always drew them like sleek and pretty snakes, and I couldn't imagine how to turn them into ugly brutes, until I looked closely at ...
2019-03-22 17:51:50 +0000 UTC View Post
“Then Fingon prince of Hithlum rode against him with archers on horseback, and hemmed him round with a ring of swift riders; and Glaurung could not endure their darts, being not yet com...
2019-03-20 17:50:13 +0000 UTC View Post
... But yes, well, it's more pin designs. ;)
I had a long day at school today and packed the wrong sketchbook - one that was full! So I ended up doodling these on the final page of it. ...
2019-03-19 18:08:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm slowly getting the hang of this. Last night when I did the ship, the line weight was still all off.
What's next? Waiting! I hope I'll have the Maedhros pins in two weeks or less, fo...
2019-03-18 17:47:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the design for the first, and most intricate, Silmaril! I decided to give the pins a jewel-shape themselves and design them so they could be worn nested into each other. The other two will b...
2019-03-18 16:07:42 +0000 UTC View PostAs you already saw, the poll results leave me with a lot of choices still! Here are the top six results (I left out Maglor, as he's already in there with the sons of Fëanor):
Here's the list! You can click more than one option, but it'd make it easier for me if you chose those you would actually c...
2019-03-16 22:32:44 +0000 UTC View Post
This one just sent my daughter into unintelligible transports of delight, haha. No nerdy talk from her this time.
This is the Team Jenny pin, so to speak. My favourite animal with, of c...
2019-03-16 17:49:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm this short of switching allegiances. ;) All hail the Finarpin! I don't know if you can see it (I certainly can), but the lineart is much cleaner here - I downloaded the Photoshop plugin Lazy Ne...
2019-03-16 11:41:08 +0000 UTC View Post
And some really cool news that I almost couldn't believe: The pin manufacturer got back to me to say that they can make different designs as if they were the same pins - meaning the price gets very...
2019-03-15 19:18:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Silly me, posted without the text. Here goes. :)
So yes, I did the Fingolpin last night... and lay awake far too long with plans for the OTHER pins. XD
My idea is this: The Maedhr...
2019-03-14 06:51:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been on a roll today, yay!
A lot of my visuals for the Silmarillion comes from the early nineties. Fingolfin got the best visuals of all of them - the face of a young Daniel Day-Le...
2019-03-13 17:53:05 +0000 UTC View Post
tl;dr:
I've started to take little commissions again - Patrons only, and prompts-only. This one, obviously, was done in the style of my 2017 Inktober pieces, and Fingolfin is to follow.
Fun bi...
2019-03-13 13:18:34 +0000 UTC View Post
I can't tell you how excruciating this is! It doesn't help that I've joined a couple of Facebook groups of people who do pins, and all they post is catastrophes. =O I do hope that one minor German ...
2019-03-13 11:01:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Look at what just happened to my Patreon earnings!
Thank you all so much, all you new Patrons, all you updating Patrons, all you long-time Patrons, and you who just did that very, very ...
2019-03-10 19:16:20 +0000 UTC View Post
After the last couple of years were a bit meagre in the con department, I'm booked for three events this year! Once every seven years, I even make it out of Germany, haha. Hope to see loads of you ...
2019-03-09 17:34:41 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't know about you, but I couldn't quite imagine how large the pin was going to be, so I did the obvious: made a little paper cutout based on the manufacturer's file. XD
Here it is next t...
2019-03-07 13:15:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Watercolour on Bockingford cold-pressed paper, 36x26 cm.
Now, I'm glad I redid this! This was exactly what I wanted. Is it possible that there's a Napoleon painting with a very similar ...
2019-03-06 17:17:35 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, the question has come up a few times, so I thought I'd clarify this again. A lot of you have been pledging more than 5$ over the past months (yay!), and I've had several question...
2019-03-06 12:00:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the mockup from the manufacturer. I'll give them green lights for production later today, so the pins should definitely be here by mid-April!
The pins close with a butterfly clas...
2019-03-06 10:21:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I've put together a little tutorial video, in which I demonstrate my cloudy structures, give tips on how to work around cat hair, and struggle for the English word for "cloth".
XD