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"Glorfindel and Asfaloth"
Made April 17th, 2008
Pencil, Watercolor pencils, blue and black pens.

"The light faded, and the leaves on the bushes rustled softly. Clearer and nearer now the bells jingled, and clippety-clip came from the quick trotting feet. Suddenly into view below came a white horse, gleaming in the shadows, running swiftly. In the dusk its headstall flickered and flashed, as if it were studded with gems like living stars. The rider's cloak streamed behind him, and his hood was thrown back; his golden hair flowed shimmering in the wind of his speed. To Frodo it appeared that a white light was shining through the form and raiment of the rider, as if through a thin veil."

~ Chapter 12 "Flight to the Ford": of the "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Well, a friend and I are beginning to have these little drawing competitions as a way to motivate our otherwise lazy selves (I mean myself for the most part) to turn out more drawings and have some fun in the process. So, we decided that since she is better doing portraits than I am, we're going to switch each week, every other week we have to draw a portrait of someone, and the next week we draw a picture where you have to make everything up from your head and draw it on paper. (Which is what I do mostly). And we agreed that we could have models for pictures too, yadda, yadda. Anyway, so since the last week was her choice (that was the "Watercolor portrait") I got to choose this week, and I chose to do Glorfindel.

Tell me whether you like it or not. I'm actually pretty happy with how it turned out, though I liked the horse better before I colored it. I thought that the perfect kind of horse for Asfaloth would be a Lipizzaner horse (utterly beautiful horses by the way) I did use a picture reference to draw it, and Glorfindel's legs were very hasseling, because I've never been good at making people look like they are actually sitting on the horse. So, this is the picture I used: [link]

Enjoy!

Description
"Glorfindel and Asfaloth"
Made April 17th, 2008
Pencil, Watercolor pencils, blue and black pens.

"The light faded, and the leaves on the bushes rustled softly. Clearer and nearer now the bells jingled, and clippety-clip came from the quick trotting feet. Suddenly into view below came a white horse, gleaming in the shadows, running swiftly. In the dusk its headstall flickered and flashed, as if it were studded with gems like living stars. The rider's cloak streamed behind him, and his hood was thrown back; his golden hair flowed shimmering in the wind of his speed. To Frodo it appeared that a white light was shining through the form and raiment of the rider, as if through a thin veil."

~ Chapter 12 "Flight to the Ford": of the "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Well, a friend and I are beginning to have these little drawing competitions as a way to motivate our otherwise lazy selves (I mean myself for the most part) to turn out more drawings and have some fun in the process. So, we decided that since she is better doing portraits than I am, we're going to switch each week, every other week we have to draw a portrait of someone, and the next week we draw a picture where you have to make everything up from your head and draw it on paper. (Which is what I do mostly). And we agreed that we could have models for pictures too, yadda, yadda. Anyway, so since the last week was her choice (that was the "Watercolor portrait") I got to choose this week, and I chose to do Glorfindel.

Tell me whether you like it or not. I'm actually pretty happy with how it turned out, though I liked the horse better before I colored it. I thought that the perfect kind of horse for Asfaloth would be a Lipizzaner horse (utterly beautiful horses by the way) I did use a picture reference to draw it, and Glorfindel's legs were very hasseling, because I've never been good at making people look like they are actually sitting on the horse. So, this is the picture I used: [link]

Enjoy!