Can someone fix my spooky eyes? Anyone?
Golden-haired Elf coloured
finished Aug 8, ’05
posted for June 22, 2007
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Ah, now this is a Photoshop picture. I didn’t know much about using Photoshop as a paint program, but I did my best. I also didn’t know much about shading anatomy. >_<7 The lips are good, if nothing else. The eyes are also just how I imagined them. I rather like the hair, which was done by drawing different coloured streaks of yellowy-brown – must be easier with a tablet – and using the smudge tool. It’s the coloured version of this picture.
We finished watching Pride and Prejudice today, Mom and I! Hooray! She decided to read the book, even though it will take her a long time.
Here are 5 zillion pictures of Glorfindel in mini form. I like the rock on his base… he was painted with Tamiya, again. I had trouble shading the cloak because I still didn’t know much. I used gold paint in his hair in an effort to make him truly ‘golden-haired’ because everyone I see is either white, silver, cream, yellow, or at best, flax. So the last shot shows it pretty well. I think it’s still not good enough, and I’m going to do more next time. I also like the moss on the rocks, and Asfaloth’s harness, and the lovely colour of green I used for the harness. It’s Tamiya “Sky”. The little blue tassels have silver bells, like the book says he had, and the sword is shiny again.
Glorfindel! And Asfaloth! Asfaloth doesn’t look as bad as my horses usually do. I still can’t draw horse chests. I should study sometime. I tried to make everything other than him and his horse dark so that he would stand out. He is supposed to have a sort of glow, I think. Like the elves in the Shire, where a faint light falls about their feet. Unfortunately, the shadow faded. Frodo came out well also, and look! It’s Aragorn! Wow! Sort of. Sam is the hobbit just behind him, Merry is the one behind Glorfindel, and Pippin is behind Asfaloth. I had trouble scanning this. It didn’t want to pick up Glorfindel’s arm or waist.
Glorfindel strikes down the evil Balrog! I think this picture is really cool, although the hero is just standing there and the path is empty of the hundreds of frightened refugees that should be there. I like his cloak, for one thing, and the eagles are not bad. That round thing is the moon. Glorfindel’s helmet got knocked off because I wanted to see his beautiful hair.
Ah, a picture of Glorfindel of Gondolin. With or without trees, ma’am? I drew him, and then I drew the wall, and then I added the city, but the city is junk so I re-deleted it in Photoshop and restored it to its original pristine brilliance. Or something like that. If you like the city, that’s fine with me. Terrible hands, but nice cloak. Maybe.