Once of the upsides of the failed attempt to paint this on aquaboard is that I knew of one major pitfall in this piece - it wasn't very smart of me to have Uldor's sword and Maglor's spear convene ...
2019-03-05 17:19:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Aside from pin-making, I've started the proper, paper version of this piece. Much, much better.
The Monstrous Battle Bunnies of Anfauglith on the washi tape are perhaps a slightly weird...
2019-03-05 12:44:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Just heard back from the manufacturers, did my calculations, and the pins are a go! I'm quite excited 🎆
I've put all the info together in one FAQ. If anything's unclear, please let m...
2019-03-04 12:14:45 +0000 UTC View Post
It was my goal to get the lineart done today, and when I'd just started drawing the front Easterling, my daughter came in: "Mum, since daddy and Timo are away and we're technically having a girls' ...
2019-03-03 22:58:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I rarely make videos of myself drawing, but here's a little timelapse of the Uldor piece! Set to x32 speed, so actual drawing of this bit took about 15 minutes.
It's still the ill-fated...
2019-03-03 19:24:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I felt bad for Maglor when I decided to scrap my Aquabord attempt - there was his moment of glory, forever abandoned. This is something I have rarely done before: do a lineart over. Starting over o...
2019-03-03 13:11:10 +0000 UTC View Post
So, I've sent off quote requests to four different pin makers - God, I hate German websites that make things. It's as if they don't want you to buy from them. They make everything incredibly hard t...
2019-03-03 08:52:23 +0000 UTC View Post
... and since I'm a good Hobbit, you get the presents!
I'm planning to have pins made - one run only, available only to Patrons. Still need to find a company that does them, but the des...
2019-03-02 18:41:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, the combination of "can't draw on it" plus "can't paint on it" is pretty much a death blow. I can't do thin brushstrokes on this paper, so ended up doing detail work and lineart in fineliner,...
2019-03-02 16:15:49 +0000 UTC View Post
... but at least I can refrain from ruining the piece. ;)
I do wonder, though, if it might be an idea to just mount a finished painting on this sort of board, after the fact.
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I can't believe I did this mad, mad drawing on woodchip. O_o
Hope I'll find the courage to start painting tomorrow. I have *zero* idea what this board will feel like when painted on.&nb...
2019-03-01 17:51:16 +0000 UTC View Post
No strings attached on this one! =O
This is my first no-holds-barred piece since... 2004, at least where complex scenes are concerned. Everything else was always drawn on different pape...
2019-03-01 16:07:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we are - you guessed it! And a much more noble steed than a tube of cream now.
I plan to do something brave with this - last year, I bought a couple of Aqua-boards. They're boards,...
2019-02-28 17:52:41 +0000 UTC View Post
... I do have a horse in a rearing pose, but it's not large enough for my Body-kun, so he's sitting on a tube of hand cream.
You probably know which scene this will be? :D
Welcome...
2019-02-28 16:49:20 +0000 UTC View Post
It's funny how much this piece turned from illustrating a feeling while listening to an audiobook to illustrating everything *I* feel whenever I'm in Cornwall. It's done this painting a world of go...
2019-02-27 19:28:47 +0000 UTC View Post
That's a sort of sea-longing I can absolutely get behind!
2019-02-27 16:20:23 +0000 UTC View Post
It took another round of starting over, but all in all, it was a good choice. The sky had become rather heavy and overworked; this time, I knew how the paper would handle so I got it done much more...
2019-02-27 11:24:44 +0000 UTC View Post
You're in for some more paper nerdery, I'm afraid - it's Bockingford again, but the torchon /rough variety, and OMG is this cool. You can literally build up endless layers, dab them off, build them...
2019-02-25 20:13:46 +0000 UTC View Post
I've always scoffed at colour studies. I used to do them digitally, which of course was okay for contrast-planning, but you can't plan watercolour digitally. For years now, I never planned them at ...
2019-02-24 13:35:52 +0000 UTC View PostI feel I've been neglecting those two - mainly Maglor! You came up with such awesome ideas the last time; any thoughts in scenes with Fingon or Maglor that are both iconic and "less travelled"?&nbs...
2019-02-23 19:16:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Did I mention how much I love my little Body-kun mannikin? There is no way I could have come up with that pose, perspective and angle by myself. Painting this should be fun!
Got a new a...
2019-02-23 18:02:37 +0000 UTC View Post
How I love having Photoshop for the early stages of conception! It's so easy to just play around with bits of the image, and to switch back and forth between different versions to compare them.&nbs...
2019-02-22 16:06:22 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm currently re-reading/listening to "Tolkien and the Great War" by John Garth, an absolutely thrilling account of Tolkien's literary development though the First World War and his brotherhood of ...
2019-02-21 16:14:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Quite obviously, I left him for last so I knew how to do eyebrows. XD
Here's all three of them, my favourite Noldor.
2019-02-20 14:53:58 +0000 UTC
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Enjoy! It's a good illustration, by the way, of the processes I talked about in this post, with the r...
2019-02-20 11:48:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I always imagined Maglor as having slightly darker eyes than most of the Eldar. The green was a logical choice. :)
I managed to do another video on this! Unfortunately, it showed me aga...
2019-02-20 11:43:34 +0000 UTC View Post
That escalated quickly. =O
Last night, I hunted for images - closeups of eyes, normal-sized photographs of people whose eyes would make a good Fingon (this is 55% model Jakob Hybhold, by the...
Playing with the KWARTSCreations paints some more. Those blues lend themselves to Fingolfinian colour schemes rather nicely, too!
I love the Vivanite - the granulating, grey-blue paint ...
2019-02-16 16:40:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Over all that happened last spring, I actually forgot that I had one reward to finish for the ones who had chosen the "Order of the Dragon" tier! Normally, I don't forget something like that, at le...
2019-02-16 14:20:11 +0000 UTC View Post
So here's the scene that had us talking earlier this week! In case you can't read my scrawl, the text says, "If Fëanor will not be swayed from this folly, then go with him you must, for you are th...
2019-02-15 15:12:59 +0000 UTC View Post