Will I wear this at grad?
Ugggggh, this is a bad picture. One reason that might be is that it’s of me. -_-7 Mom took me shopping for nice clothes, including a performance dress. Well, I really liked this floor-length scarlet thing, and I thought it was very pretty. We didn’t buy it, so I drew a picture of it. But it’s a terrible picture. I think my shoulders are too wide, or something, and my head is a funny shape. And my arms look like blobs.
Lord and Lady of Rings
Elrond, the man himself! And Lady Galadriel!
… This proves that I cannot draw horses with any accuracy. Meh. Elrond’s actually had to wait two years before I tried drawing its legs, and it still didn’t come out.
Oh, well, Elrond’s face looks okay, and Galadriel looks actually quite stunning! I’m very proud of her hair, and the pretty flowers in it.
Few could tell them apart
These are Elladan and Elrohir, and as I said if you wave your mouse over the picture, few could tell them apart. I certainly can’t. By Christmas I had miniatures of them, but the next batch of those I’ll be putting up are of someone else. Oooh. So the one on the left, I think, is Elrohir, and the one on the right is Elladan.
And while I’m at it, this picture marks the start of a new sketchbook.
Music!
This guy is an entertainer on a BC Ferries ferry that was taking us from Vancouver, where we’d been to visit my (Grand-) Aunt Sets and to see Bard on the Beach, the Shakespeare festival. I don’t remember what we saw that year, but it could have been Twelfth Night or Macbeth or something. Anyway, Mom went and talked to this guy after he was done, and found out he lives in Campbell River. Isn’t that odd. Dad said, while he was playing, that I should do a picture of him, since I had my sketchbook with only a couple of pages left (mostly scribbles of titles from the Provincial music festival). So I did. And I noted: “he had a capo but there’s a baby stroller in front so I can’t see”.
Dancer of twilight
This is supposed to be Luthien the Fair. I’ve never seen a Luthien that I considered as beautiful as the most beautiful woman in the world.
Killing blow
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.
Brother and Sister of the Nolder
Galadriel and Finrod are the best looking of the Children of Finarfin, as well as the most famous and the most central. So la di da. Pretty hair.
Flowy!
I think this is Glorfindel, but I’m not sure. Wait ’til you see the coloured version. The end.
Oh yeah, and nice eyes. This guy, Glorfindel or not, is still pretty nice.
Faceless sniper man
This picture must have been drawng AFTER I finished the elf archer costume mentioned above, since it follows pretty faithfully what I wore for Hallowe’en that year. Actually, yes, it does, because I made most of the costume the year before, in the guise of an elf knight. It was a Warhammer High Elf knight, the one from inside the front cover of the rulebook (that one’s really nice-looking). I made a white robe, and cardboard-and-foil armour that laced up with string, and even a cardboard helmet. This year, I took an interest in archery instead of spears – and I didn’t even make a spear – so I made a quiver out of wire and brown cloth, and a bow out of long pieces of bamboo from our bamboo windbreak on the deck, and also I got out the old raggedy cloak that was made from two pieces of gauzy curtain that Mom and Dad were going to throw away. Don’t laugh, this was all quite good for my skill level then! Also I had a white ribbon that I tied around my head a la Fiora. I looked pretty nerdy when I was done, but I was happy with it. Now, if I just had a pointy-ear-maker-mechanism…
Water, rocks, trees… perfect elf habitat
A Zela picture with Zela in it! How rare!
This was drawn on holiday at my former piano teacher’s fishing resort. My dad did a webpage for her so she gave us a free package. So we invited my grandparents over and we all went fishing. Mom and Grandma and I all went together for an afternoon, and the next day Dad and Grandpa and my brother all went. Also some orcas swam through, which meant that we weren’t catching much.
But this has nothing to do with drawing a picture. The picture comes from the fact that there is absolutely gorgeous scenery around that resort, perfect for Zela. So, I drew her and her husband in an area that looks remarkably like the bay outside my window. I like her tunic dress. Flair is so very short. I miscalculated the page. Blah. I still like the picture, even if the artwork itself is mediocre.