How to crash an elf party: a tutorial by Thorin Oakenshield

This is a picture of more of those Mirkwoodian elves, the tree elves, I suppose. I had trouble drawing in scale, so that’s why the ones in the back are bigger than the ones in front. At least the ones who are biggest are the most important.

Thranduil, King of Mirkwood, is the big guy on the left, and Legolas his son is on the right of him. There are random people all over, including a harpist, and a dark-haired, dark-eyed cutie hiding smiling behind a tree over on the far left. Esgalwen is the girl with dark shiny hair leaning against the log in front, chatting with someone… her sister? Oh, and that’s Thorin, hiding in plain view, so this is from The Hobbit. Who guessed before I said?

I shaded this one, because I figured it would be too hard to show that it was night time by the light of a ‘bonfire’ if it wasn’t. I shaded it, I remember, at all the parts of a Campbell River Friends of Music concert, I think it was, that it wasn’t impolite: before, intermission, and after. I was just finishing up, and that’s why I think I took it with me. I’m pleased with how it came out, although, even though I got Dad to spray it with protective stuff so it wouldn’t smudge, it still smudged. It’s smudged even worse now than this scan, since I did the scan at least two years ago. Blah. I can tell because you can’t see the harpist’s strings on the original, now, and there’s a lot of graphite on the back of the previous page, which is the beginning of a new sketchbook.