Archivist's Sketchbook

Suilad, Mae Govannen!

I am @meluiloth, an artist, writer, and lover of all things Lord of the Rings! This sideblog will be dedicated to my art - specifically the works I create that are not related to Middle-Earth (like non-Tolkien original characters and fanart). Consider this my little miscellaneous museum!

This also works as an ask blog for my original characters - including the LOTR ones - so if you have any asks for my ocs, feel free to send them in!

Art Fight: Art Fight - Meluiloth's Profile

Toyhouse (work in progress): https://toyhou.se/Meluiloth

I'm trying to improve animation (so that I can finally make good quality animation someday like I've always wanted to) and since Ruben is currently my favorite one to draw, he is my guinea pig.

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out - the subtle movements and expression changes contrast nicely with the overall sequence, I think - but I know I can improve more! Maybe I'll try adding color!

Guess who’s back into Minecraft!

Since Art Fight is done (and I’ll be posting a compilation of my attacks soon!) I can relax and slow down my drawing pace finally, and since I’ve been playing Minecraft more recently, I remembered how fun this guy is to draw. Honestly, he’s not an oc that “lives in my head rent-free” - I gave him an eviction notice four months ago and he still hasn’t budged, so I guess he’s just here now lol.

And, while I was drawing him, I went ahead and updated a few elements of his design and story! Design-wise he’s still pretty similar, it’s mostly just my style that has improved over the last few months. His scar is now on the left side of his face, though!

I did change his name from Clyde to Ruben, so that’s new and important! He’s also more serious, aloof, and a little more hostile than he originally was, as well as more independent and solitary. I do definitely plan on writing up his full backstory if anyone is interested, so don’t think I’ve forgotten about that.

Here are some extra doodles I did (based around his Vindicator career):

Ghost cowboy :))

With the new Deltarune chapters having just been released, I drew Kris to celebrate! I don’t know much about the games, but my sibling loves them.

I animated it as well! It’s glitchy, so click to see it :D

I just finished these artworks of my current DnD character, a half-Orc Sorcerer/Fighter named Sacha Thorne!! It took me a while to settle on a design for her, but I'm super hyped about these drawings- Sacha means the world to me, as an oc I actually get to play (since I rarely get to play DnD and when I do I've been the Forever DM for years). Her design is heavily inspired by 2000's grunge if it was fantasy, with some subtle scorpion imagery as well (like her braid and tattoos), since her magic is based on poison and acid.

I did put her up on Art Fight, so if you like her, please check out her profile!! If you draw her this year I would love it so much!

Kicking off my art fight prep with a brand-new reference set for Petrichor!!

Working on revamping all of my ocs' profiles on there!

I haven't been super active in a while, so I realized I drew a bunch of stuff I forgot to post, both digital and traditional!

At some point I plan to elaborate on Rubens’s backstory, but for now I'll just share these artworks and give you a brief rundown. Basically, he grew up in a Woodland Mansion, raised to be a Vindicator because of his athletic skills and his protective nature, and he got pretty good at it. But, even though he was very loyal (if a little challenging to authority at times), when he got wounded in a Raid, the Illagers left him to die. Through sheer force of will Ruben recovered and renounced his loyalty to the Illagers, deciding instead to live his own life as a wanderer and huntsman. He did, however, make himself a direct enemy of the Illagers, taking any opportunity to fight against them in revenge for what they did to him.

I’ve been playing a lot of Minecraft recently, and of course I drew my character a bunch of times and now it's officially an OC. His name is Ruben and he is an ex-Vindicator who is really indifferent to violence and prefers to live a solitary life where he can explore, build, and collect cool things in peace.

(Unrelated, but I imagine his voice to be like if Batman was a chain smoker)

Since I'm having some trouble with my iPad at the moment, I decided I'd do some traditional sketches in ky sketchbook; and, as I found myself listening to some angsty songs, I drew my angstiest characters, Petrichor and Morrow!

Here's the spread I did of Petrichor, along with some lyrics from Indigo Night by Tamino (a song that I think fits him well); I'm so happy with how that first page turned out (the one on the right I think could have been a little better, but I still like it!

And here are Morrow's pages! I absolutely love that full portrait on the left - it's so atmospheric, and I love the effect of the background! The lyrics are from Poor Man's Poison, by Poor Man's Poison!

Another thing I really like is that, if looked at the right way, these two drawings look like two sides of one portrait, which is such a cool effect.

I was tagged by @from-the-coffee-shop-in-edoras for this fun prompt to use this headcanon generator to generate a few headcanons for my ocs, and talk about how accurate they are. I already did this on my main blog @meluiloth with my LOTR ocs, and it was so fun I'm also doing it here for Morrow and Petrichor! I'm going to generate three headcanons for each of them!

Morrow:

Morrow almost drank the lethal dosage of caffeine once.

Morrow drinks the lethal dosage of caffeine daily just to keep going. He keeps increasing the concentration because he's becoming immune to the affects.

Morrow has an incredible long-term memory but an awful short-term memory.

This one is not accurate; Morrow's memory is near-photographic, especially since his line of work depends on him meticulously keeping track of minute details, so both his long-term and his short-term memory is very clear.

Morrow believes in ghosts and insists on trying to summon one at every sleepover.

Morrow absolutely believes in ghosts, but summoning one is the exact opposite thing he would ever want to do; he's very haunted by what he's done, so he would want to keep any ghosts as far away from him as possible.

Petrichor:

Petrichor has not showered in two and a half weeks.

This one is very inaccurate; though he's on the scruffier side, Petrichor absolutely hates being dirty, and his powers as a storm mage allow him to take a shower whenever he wants.

Petrichor watched the sonic movie.

He absolutely would watch the Sonic movie - both of them - and get addicted to them. He would be hyped about Shadow being featured in the third movie.

If Petrichor likes someone, he will give them a pretty rock.

Ever since leaving prison, Petrichor has developed a fascination for collecting things he finds interesting - small trinkets that he can travel with, like rocks - and sharing these little treasures is one way he would try and befriend others (since his communication skills are pretty low). It might not be a rock, necessarily, but it would be something interesting.

This game is really fun - the generator's complete unpredictability makes for prompts that are either uncannily accurate or wildly inaccurate, and it's really fun either way!