~Arwen's Hope~

Edit: Darkened the shading around her eyes slightly and made a darker scan because the other one was rather light.

The portrait that got me launched into this drawing business was Arwen's Hope which I drew in the end of December 2003 (a little over 3 months ago ). I had done no reading on how to draw, I used a #2 pencil only and I drew it on sketch paper. And I was paranoid about the scanner being able to pick up pencil, so after I was done I actually went over the outlines of everything even darker... Considering all these things, I am quite happy with the first version of Arwen's hope. I think that the placement and shape of the features are pretty good. (It does, after all, look like Arwen) But I felt that she deserved better. I've improved so much since that portrait that I felt a should do a new one but at the skill level I am at now. So, here it is!

Here is a link to the original Arwen's Hope [link] (you can see the truly crappy nature of the paper...) and here is one to the reference [link] (#62)

About this drawing, the lips gave me a bit of trouble in the beginning stages of the sketch, what with having to make sure one side is shorter and all to get the proper perspective... I think I fixed it And in the reference, there is barely any detail to be seen in the hair, so I did not try to add detail in that might have ended up looking fake... I had to create the top of her head, after all, I felt that was enough creativity And it's too huge for my scanner! waanh I think I did an ok job of disguising the line with that neato clone tool... And I left the tears out on purpose. It's supposed to be showing the emotion Hope, not Sadness!

This will be the last LOTR drawing until the Extended DVD comes out. Next I'm doing a Star Wars series I hope I don't lose my watchers' interests