Whooo! It’s another colour thingy, made with my tablet yesterday! I put up both versions… the one that is plain and then one with a primitive attempt at forest-y lighting. I was going to put stronger shadows on his face but I got sidetracked so you get the same old boring flat lighting. Whatever.
This is a colour version of this picture, and it is of this guy.
(stare)
Yay! Something that turned out! If you don’t remember them these two heads are representative of my Silver Helm guys. Turmith, or at least part of him that was abandoned due to NOT turning out, is on the left. Elfin is on the right, sans armour… and what a handsome fellow he is. So earnest looking. He’s my favourite. Here’re the minis, to remind you: Turmith, Elfin.
Crash
Lastly, we have Suldal, or Windfoot. As such, I’m not sure why he signed up to be in the cavalry. He often runs alongside, almost as swift as a horse himself. But, in the end, he adores horses and likes the feel of a lance at high speed, and no one in an infantry regiment would be able to keep up with him, so if he charged with a spear he’d leave the rest behind and that’s not good tactics. So that must be why he rides with the Celebthol.
Hey!
And now we have Tarthalion, whose name means “noble and steadfast”. As such, he must be the voice of extended wisdom in the group. Perhaps he has an interest in gardening. Yeah, that sounds good.
See here…
The lad on show today is Mithalqua, the guy with the interest in water. His name means Grey Swan, and so he has silver wings on his helmet and a silver shield. He rides just behind Falamir. Pretty jewels, eh?
Yaaa!
This is Gilglin, the ‘firebrand’ of the group, as denoted by his shield. Actually, just kidding. He’s quite cool, though he can get a bit excited. He likes sports, whatever kinds of sports elves have…
I like the way I did the flames on his shield and his helmet. It’s Tamiya red ink over silver. Turned out very well.
Whee, look at me
Silros up today! Silros is a poet, because he has heart jewels everywhere. Yes, that makes a lot of sense (sarcasm). Anyway, um, yeah. He’s a poet. That’s just his entire life, except of course for chopping up bad guys in the cavalry. He also is friends with Falamir, a bit, and he’s the other guy who’s always in the front rank (on Elfin’s right).
Ha!
This is Falamir, who rides on Turmith’s left and therefore is usually the most visible of the group. His name means ‘surf jewel’. I like the silver moon on his shield. I had some fun figuring out who would get which heraldry, and I’m not fond of mix-and-match, so Falamir also has the moon-and-three-tears helm decoration and armour with a moon on it. I also covered a page in one of my larger, rougher sketchbooks with colour ideas. You can see the blue-goop-tack stuff (normally used for holding paper on walls) I used to keep his shield on. -_-7 They’re all held on that way, all the shields, and the riders to the horses too. There’s a gem on each left wrist that I felt reluctant to cover up permanently with the shield, so instead we get goop. Meh. And I messed up the paint on the jewels on his helm decoration… they overlap the gold rims too much.
Falamir is a singer, when he’s not skewering stuff on his shiny lance, and has light wheat-coloured-ish hair. His favourite colour is blue, obviously, and comes from an old family (with pretty heraldric symbols). He has a little sister, and likes taking long walks on the beach, especially at sunset. Single. Also plays guitar to accompany himself, and has good eyes, which come in handy for detecting ambushes.
I made the Celebthol close up pictures bigger because they weren’t very detailed at all. Heh.
Ta-dah
Elfinwë! Originally called Elfin, but with we added to make the bilingual pun less obvious. That means Star Hair, and we is just an emphasis, I think. I need to go back and read that paragraph again…
Elfin is primarily a musician, a reliable fellow, also a bit of an artist in his spare time, a wise second-in-command. Single, and handsome. ^_^ My favourite of the Celebthol, with leaderish Turmith coming runner-up. This picture doesn’t really show the good side of his face, only the side covered with hair, but it shows his colours and shield and stuff.
Pose!
More Turmith today. I have just about nothing to say except that I’m very busy, so I’m not going to say very much. Isn’t he cool? Love the shield. It’s a bit of a hassle preventing it from getting dented. Eärfaroth is the only one with a white jewel on the forehead of his harness.
Turmith is, besides the leader of the Celebthol, also the leader of my tiny warhost that I led against Kevin’s Brets. He’s known in the text version simply as “the blue-eyed commander”, but he has a green-eyed second. I’m not sure if this refers to Elfinwë, the musician, or to the boss of the archer regiment that was the next to be finished. However, my strategic incompetence led to almost every single battle being lost by my troops. Phooey. It’s not blue-eyes’ fault! And in the text version, I managed to write it like a draw, instead of a massacre. Meh.
The young commander is… young, determined, a bit idealistic in his conceptions of nobility, but being an elf manages to carry it off well. Thinks well of others, tries to defend his friends, can be driven to exact vengeance. Also tries to excuse – but learn from – mistakes (archers effectively destroyed by not forming into ranks? Tell ’em next time. By the way, they all escaped by climbing trees except one. Ha). A bit ambitious, as he wants to do his job well not only to protect the innocent, but also to be given larger armies to command. So far, his superiors think he’s doing a good job.
Turmith, on the other hand, is veteran and impassive, but good pals with Elfinwë in down time. Trains energetically, has a voice that carries well, loves backgammon oddly enough, blue eyes, dark hair, loves his horse, cool-headed in battle. Marital status unknown. That shiny sword belonged to his grandfather.