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Published: 2014-12-29 03:29:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 1838; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 1
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C.C. from left: Findis, Fingolfin, Lalwen, Finarfin.Oh yes I had a lot of fun with Pushkin's children this morning (fav.me/d8bkwu9) , which tempted me to try some coloured pencil drawings with Silmarillion characters. The model provides perfect layout for four characters as a group, but, since I have just made a picture of Finarfin's children earlier this month, I really want something different. Fingolfin also has four children, yet unfortunately, I have much difficulty visualize any of them. Now, these four siblings make for a good try.
Actually I wanted to make a step-by-step for this drawing as well, but my cellphone camera decided against it by blurring over half of my WIP pictures... And there's obviously no way for any pick-up shots now... So I am just including: [left] the completed work, [top-right] the B&W sketch, and [bottom-right] the final-stage WIP picture whose colours are closer to the actual drawing than the photo of the finished work shows them...
This is the first time I draw Findis and Lalwen, and I really need to practice on drawing these ladies more. Extremely unsatisfied with Lalwen's look. Fingolfin and Finarfin are their usual selves in my headcanon.
I don't remember any canon quotation concerning hair colour of Findis and Lalwen, so I decided on dark hair. I think Prof. Tolkien has made clear that Finarfin's blond hair is quite unique, even within that family.
Characters belong to J. R. R. Tolkien.
Pencil, black, blue & red ballpoint pen, coloured pencils.
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You're very prolific! I wish I were able to produce works as quickly as you! I really like your take on these siblings - they all seem to be related and yet have their own idiosyncrasies and personalities - particularly the brothers: Fingolfin certainly looks proud, as Tolkien describes him, whilst Finarfin has that gentler and wiser look of the Vanyar. The heraldry is perfect, and I also like the patterning on their clothing, which is so subtle you don't really notice it, yet it would be a glaring deficiency if absent!
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Actually I am just being impatient, always leaving sketches as sketches and never working on them enough. That's not a real artist's attitude, I'd say.
And yeah, the brothers are actually easier to capture, I think, because there is sufficient canon text to help me visualize their personalities, or their feels, and also because I have drawn these two before. Can't say the same with their sisters LOL.
I didn't really work much on the patterns. But yes, usually I'd just randomly adorn their collars, cuffs and other trims of fabric with leaf or petal shapes, or geometric patterns, or just curves, because I can't bear having no decoration there
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Rules were not made for artists 
You're right though, the brothers are of course the easier to draw, though its fun to speculate on the sisters - I like what you've come up with. And patterning is indeed essential for this subject matter - unless you draw an orc or something
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Yay! the daughters of Finwë are seriously under-appreciated next to their brothers, glad to see them get some love too ^^
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I'm not surprised about that. We know preciously little about them, and that adds to the difficulty to portray them... But yep, they really really need more love♥
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It's really too bad that we know so little about them… I bet they would be intriguing people. Findis was Fëanor's first half-sibling, that can't have been easy living. And Lalwen crossed the ice with Fingolfin and presumably died in one of the battles of Beleriand. There are definitely stories there… (why oh why didn't you write more on your female characters, Tolkien? *sob*)
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Indeed. I personally think Tolkien's brain in his later years (or maybe throughout his life as mythology writer) is like under constant explosive attacks, and he himself didn't know how to clear the aftermath strategically... hence all those new characters, new events and altered course of storyline which are never much explored...
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A lifetime was probably far too little time to write down everything he imagined… *sigh*
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