Hey there! It's been awhile, but I'm back with a few doodles. My schedules changed, so I work on my school paintings everyday now instead of every other day. While I love all the extra time to finish up my portfolio, it's definitely made it harder to have the energy to work on personal art.
(Speaking of which--around a month ago, I was sharing some
wip photos of an oil painting in the 'what art projects are you working on?' thread. I was finally able to get a nice picture of the finished painting, and I'm not certain if I should post it in the same thread because it's finished now. Perhaps I should start a thread in
The Prancing Pony for my non-Tolkien artwork and paintings? I'm curious as to what your thoughts are).
Anyway, onto some of my recent doodles.
First off is a thing I actually finished today. I randomly ended up seeing a circular shaped portrait composition on Pinterest, and I liked it so I tried it out with the boys: (
Maglor on the left
Maedhros on the right)
I quite like how Maglor turned out, but I think Maedhros's head is a bit wonky looking. That, and I was visiting family when I colored it, and the random markers I chose to take with me fit Maglor color scheme a lot better. The mauve I used for Mae's hair is fine, but it looks a little dull instead of pastel.
Close ups:
Next we have bunch of Maglor sketches tucked here and there among other things. He's pretty easy to doodle, and he's my favorite character, so what can I say? 🤣 Some of them may be a bit wonky, but I think they're cute anyway. I've been trying to play around with my stylization, which is why his features are different then the portrait above.
(look how happy he is to crammed in next to my bio notes! lol)
Next are some Caranthir drawings, because I randomly felt like drawing him:
Like I said, I'm trying to play around with stylization, so I wanted him to have more distinct features. That said, I definitely need to sit down and hammer out what I think
Feanor and
Nerdanel's features would look like, that way I make their sons look like them, and of course look like each other. My vague thoughts on Moryo's likeness are that the stronger nose is Nerdanel's, and the wider eyes are
Fëanor's. I wonder what your thoughts are on their features? I'm trying to draw less faces that all look the same, and part of that is deciding what exactly characters look like in my head.
I realize this design of him comes off pretty vampire-y, which I'm honestly fine with. I mean, you can only do so many original things with 'Rich man that looks mildly
evil, and has long black hair' 🤣. The cloak I gave him isn't helping, I know, but it's actually inspired by Caitlyn Kiramman, so it's not like I was
trying to make him look like a vampire. I think maybe giving the cloak a lighter color helped though? I like it either way, a lighter cloak makes it seem like he'd be less likely to 'get his hands dirty' which is in character in my head.
Next is a drawing of Caranthir and Haleth, with that same Caranthir design. I actually don't really like how his face looks in this one, I think the whole thing is a little too wonky, but it's cute so whatever. This ship is growing on me, if I'm being honest. Their dynamic has a slightly different vibe than the other human/
elf pairings, which I think is one of the reasons why I like it. I don't know, it's hard to explain.
Here's a little colored pencil drawing of Finno:
I keep getting the itch to draw him, but then when I do, I'm always disappointed with how it looks. I'm not sure why, I just don't end up happy with it. I didn't like this one either, but after sharing it with some other friends they said it wasn't too bad, and it's grown on me. I definitely want to do a more polished thing of him soon though, to really do him justice.
And to finish off, here's silly little sketch of
Finrod holding a baby
Galadriel:
I think it'd be funny if baby Arta was irrationally scared of Finrod because he's a little to over-excitable and fidgety for a toddler lol 🤣. Poor thing just wants to be put down so she can play.
That's all for today, thanks for reading and talking a look! Have a great weekend, everyone!