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Celegorm the Fair

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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 :devilish:

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 :giggle:

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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Sirielle's avatar
Lurking here for inspiration, again. Since I did it not the first time, I should really fav him :D There is something in him :love: 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 :)