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Matthew · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 9:03 am

Ok this is what it comes down to people and you have entered the Lord Of The Rings themed thread.
I made a speed-painting earlier which was inspired by Bennet�s and Lasaine�s work from the book of "Two Towers", the picture beneath is the final version.

*The idea with this thread is that all episodes is included and your pictures can be everything from speedy�s to finished pieces and both digital and traditional work accepted.
You can use ref or do an inspired piece or perhaps come up with your own version of how a creature or character what would have looked like if you were making one for The Lord Of The Rings, last mentioned was Max Kulich idea, thx Max. Smile

Maybe we could post reference sources (url�s) to help eachother out a bit with ref looking.

Here�s one reference that I have, ironically it has exceeded its 20 gb�s of daily limit today though, hopefully it will work tomorrow. Confused

http://fellowshipandbeyond.100freemb.com/pictures.htm

Keep up the good work everyone
Matthew

lucasgraciano · junior member Member # Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 18

Here's a piece I did for an Illustration assignment. I chose the Hobbit as my book to Illustrate. Assignment was to create a vignet in black and white. It's the "Battle of the Five Armies" from the end of the book. It's not LOTR but it's Middle Earth related! I'm a big LOTR nerd, I have lot's of little sketches I'll post later.

MCnasto · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:56 pm

here's one of frodo i did exactly 1 year ago today.... its really scary that this thread would open today haha Very Happy

its the first thing i did on a WACOM tablet. It was the only thing i made using a Graphire2 (borrowed from a friend to test it out). After making this, I instantly ordered my Intuos2 6x8 and have never been happier.
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Iliya Zilberter · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 3:14 pm

Oh man, LOTR rocks! I drew this about 3 weeks ago, don't know if I posted it on here yet:

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HungerArtist · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 6:30 pm

helltaxi · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 11:25 pm

did this one quite a while ago. Its sam, but looks nothing like him.

spooge demon · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 4:10 am

ok I bite.

I like the books, the movies make me sad.

heres a little remembered hildebrandt, as little frazetta, breaded lightly, 350 for 20 minutes, burnt crapola

Matthew · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 5:21 am

Wow very nice stuff everyone. Smile

Mcnasto, pretty cool with that one year ago thing.

Inspired piece and a little bit referenced by one of Falconer�s characters, watercolors are difficult.

keep em coming dudes
Matthew

Agrajag · member Member # Joined: 03 Mar 2002 Posts: 93

I'm almost ashamed to post this, it looks like a child's scribble. Not ashamed enough though... =)

Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow;
Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow.
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HungerArtist · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 7:06 pm

Spooge- Nice buns Smile

MCnasto · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 10:07 pm

i just had to re-do my abomination of frodo from last year hehe...

This is the one from last year (January 9th, 2003):

here's the new one i just did (January 11th, 2004):

i think ive improved in one years time.... i love these forums! i wud have never gotten this deep into digital art if it wasn't for you guys. thankyou everyone!
also thanks matt for making this thread! i would have never redone this frodo picture! Very Happy

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legolas · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:53 am

you improved greatly, the second one has better detail and colors.. love the lighting on his face! Great job, all of you!
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Max · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 3:52 am

NIce work everybody!

lucasgraciano: pretty cool!
MCnasto: congratulations!

Capt.FlushGarden · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 6:36 am

whicked, SPOOGE, why does the movies make you sad? I must tell yall that I havent read the books, heh Sad

Old one:

AndyT · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 8:47 am

Great stuff everybody.
MCnasto: Amazing! Hope next year I'll redo this and be where you are now!

Had to give up ... tried about 10 times to start from scratch.
About 20 times I tried working from an earlier version.
Spend almost the whole day on this crap ...
It's what you get for trying to see and paint planes I guess. Crying or Very sad

Makes me want to give up ...
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Matthew · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 10:48 am

Mcnasto, that is very impressive there and I am glad you like the thread, keep the pictures coming. Smile

AndyT, I think you have done a fine job, as spooge showed you in the overpaint he made earlier, don�t be afraid to push the values even more. If you see a little purple add it and then add a little bit more to see how much purple you can add. hehe maybe I am rambling but I wanted to give you some tip, hope it is ok. Smile

lucas, very nice drawings.

Very nice work everyone. Smile

Here�s some Saruman picture where I played with the values a bit, ref used

Matthew

AndyT · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 6:48 pm

Didn't you guys hear him? Keep the pictures coming Evil or Very Mad

Matthew: Thanks. People do actually recognize her. I thought it was worse.
Guess it is accurate enough if you don't have the ref image to compare it with.
I think the value range is pretty big.
The shadows on her face are bright ... but it looked weird when I made them darker.

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I'll post another version in the speedpainting thread now.
The speedy took about 30 minutes. For this I worked on it for about 20 more minutes.
Plus 10 minutes for applying filters Embarassed

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AndyT · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 4:46 pm

I hate to bump this thread like that (<- lie)

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i_m_studio · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 3:33 pm

(19 yr olds performance with a crappy mouse)

Ylla · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 7:06 am

MCnasto > that frodo... he looks evil in that first one... like, evil to the core and driven to the brink, hating to death whatever he's looking at (me in this case Wink

shudder...

much improvement in a year! *applause*
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Sukhoi · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 3:23 am

Diruo · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 10:50 am

The movies makes me sad too. They're pretty and cool, but don't do the books justice imho. Sadder still is how everyone is painting characters that look like the actors in the movie. You're artists! Read the books and use your imagination! Wink

Great stuff though Smile

ChenZan · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 1:47 am

THis is a painting i did in acrylic. i wanted to do a speed painting of it but turned out i just kept working on it for a week. Fangorn Forest.

Sukhoi · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 2:50 pm

Diruo: True! You're right.

Made an update on this guy. Sorry for the double post, but I'll let the earlier version stay, so people can see the difference.

Sukhoi

cok3 · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 7:10 pm

worked on this durin the holidays 4-5 hrs with a mouse (i knew i shoulda brought my tablet...)

sodiaz · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:10 am

Nice thread Cool

Did an orc today at school, with a mouse.

A_K · junior member Member # Joined: 28 Jan 2004 Posts: 1

made these sketches a year ago

EssenmitSosse · member Member # Joined: 21 Dec 2002 Posts: 61

This one wasnt planed as an LotR Fanart(but is a litte homage to it), so dont matter about the background. Normaly there was some more in the right part of this picture, but because it hasnt anything to do with the book/movie and dont look like somethink from the book/movie (like this balrog) I cut it of for this thread.

cok3 · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:38 pm

nice orc sodiaz. how did u create those strokes (most visible on the lower left of the background) ? what software did u use?