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Celegorm the Fair. 3rd Eldest son of Feanor. Why have I portrayed the son of Feanor blonde? Well I was planning to give him dark hair because I am personally of the opinion that all but Amrod, Amras and Maedhros were as dark as dear Feanor. But then I keep looking at 's renditions of him with a mane of wild golden hair like a proud lion and I began to think well if the family can have a colour as light as a redhead why not blond? Who's to say some of Nerdanel's relatives didn't have fairer hair? It's not directly written but that doesn't mean its impossible right?
I had some EXTREME issues with the hair as it was. I was trying to achieve a photo real look but unfortunately the whole piece still looks painted and rather messily at that. I just......I can't do hair at all. I think its one of those things that only works with tablets. Fair too fine-detailed for a clumsy mouse to reproduce well. That and after 10 hours straight of painting my arms were dropping off and I was too tired to paint it properly. Probably should have done it in short breaks but meh I wanted it finished.
Why is he naked I hear you ask? Why not? Okay the point is forgot to draw any clothes in and seeing as I am not particularly good at painting stuff in that doesn't already have pencil guidelines I decided to leave him in the buff. Why then in a forest and not indoors as all naked elf lords should be? Well I figure its a hot summer day. He's just ransacked some poor dark elf's house and now he wants to go skinny dipping in the local lake to wash the blood off
I'm selecting Critique Discouraged on this because I know where the problems are and I want to be able to sit back and rest on my laurels a bit with all the hardwork I put into colouring it without having someone nitpick about mistakes I already know.
Pencil sketch courtsey of (see her gallery for the before sketch).
Colours courtesy of me using Photoshop 5.5 and a mouse. And a helluva lot of Diet Coke
Background is a stock photo I found on the web somewhere. I'm not sure who it belongs to so I can't credit it but its not mine.
I had some EXTREME issues with the hair as it was. I was trying to achieve a photo real look but unfortunately the whole piece still looks painted and rather messily at that. I just......I can't do hair at all. I think its one of those things that only works with tablets. Fair too fine-detailed for a clumsy mouse to reproduce well. That and after 10 hours straight of painting my arms were dropping off and I was too tired to paint it properly. Probably should have done it in short breaks but meh I wanted it finished.
Why is he naked I hear you ask? Why not? Okay the point is forgot to draw any clothes in and seeing as I am not particularly good at painting stuff in that doesn't already have pencil guidelines I decided to leave him in the buff. Why then in a forest and not indoors as all naked elf lords should be? Well I figure its a hot summer day. He's just ransacked some poor dark elf's house and now he wants to go skinny dipping in the local lake to wash the blood off
I'm selecting Critique Discouraged on this because I know where the problems are and I want to be able to sit back and rest on my laurels a bit with all the hardwork I put into colouring it without having someone nitpick about mistakes I already know.
Pencil sketch courtsey of (see her gallery for the before sketch).
Colours courtesy of me using Photoshop 5.5 and a mouse. And a helluva lot of Diet Coke
Background is a stock photo I found on the web somewhere. I'm not sure who it belongs to so I can't credit it but its not mine.
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Lurking here for inspiration, again. Since I did it not the first time, I should really fav him There is something in him Silmarillion Writers Guild [link] holds Celegorm Appreciation Month in April and I wanted to add something from me, but as I am soooo productive writer I thought to draw something. Need to take a look at fav Celegorms first