alystraea:

sumeriasmith:

Continuing to actually scan and post art I’ve been working on… 

Aman Dance Party #2: Fingolfin and Anaire. I tried something new with the underpainting this time, and it was astonishingly successful in getting the flowers to have the kind of glowing effect I wanted. My feeling is, if we poor mortal humans have managed to make glow in the dark plants, the Noldor can definitely have biolumenescent magnolias if they want.

Nolo, you will notice, unlike some brothers he could name but won’t, has actually dressed for a party. His taste in fashion is a bit more conservative than his wife’s though; I have a feeling the sleeveless thing is more On Trend, as it were. He wasn’t meant to be quite so blue, though– I have a general tendancy to try to not draw Feanor in all red or Fingolfin in all blue, because that feels cliche to me. My scanner, however, has a deep seated vendetta against the only real true purple marker I have, and often renders it kind of blue, which I always forget, so here we are.

I am all for glowing flowers in Aman.

evergreennightmare:

genquerdeer:

femmenietzsche:

dasha-is-bats:

ask-disneyka:

dasha-is-bats:

dasha-is-bats:

Have I ever shown you guys these weird late 80s Soviet Lord Of The Rings illustrations?

They were made by Sergei Iukhimov, who’s virtually unknown otherwise.

More from where that came from

Holy fuck this is absolutely perfect

I hated them as a kid, but I can appreciate them now.

Some more reasonably sized ones here:

LOTR art that actually looks like medieval illuminations? holy shit

@linguisticparadox !!!

sumeriasmith:

Speaking of things I drew a while ago but didn’t get scanned and posted to the internet, I give you Aman Dance Party, part 1. I think the colors on this one came out particularly well, though some of the detail in the linework was lost in the coloring, so I’m very pleased with myself overall.

A headcanon you will pry from my cold dead fingers is that Feanor has the very annoying habit of 1. almost never bothering to dress appropriately for any given occasion while 2. always managing to look fabulous. So here we have Feanor who threw a nice shirt on over the shit he was already wearing, which is why his boots ten million percent clash with the rest of his outfit. That was intentional. Neardanel, on the other hand, does dress for fancy parties, but I am also firmly of the opinion that elves have the concept of fancy dress pants.