amon

(this is very much a dillema because this style seem hard to make it correct when I try to render it out. Maybe it's a problem with stylization? I should try a different approach next time) (now that I look back I genuinely think I should stick to this version and I love this ver. of mai the most)

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May i ask if you have your process posted/explained anywhere? Cause id love to learn how to draw a bit more like you, the way you render, or the way you make handsome men in detailed clothing

Ohh tysm <333 I’m happy that you enjoyed them!

I don’t have a single set process that I follow every time, so I’ve never really posted an explanation before. It changes depending on what I want to focus on - sometimes it's the face or costume, other times it's more about a mood. So for one piece I might start with line sketch, other times I block in shapes or mix both, for another I might use Blender, photos, and then combine it with painting so it really depends!

That said, since I am usually quite loose and a little chaotic in these fanarts I can explain how I "cheat" the look a little bit and make things look more detailed than they actually are.

For clothing, I usually heavily rely on abstract shape/noise rather than paint out everything. For example:

If you zoom in those "details" are just very loose textural indications that gives the *impression* of a certain material or design. But it reads like "something" because they all had hard edges and a simple but clear value scheme (usually black/medium grey). These clothings are more about shape designs than rendering. Tbh I rarely draw out every little thing unless it's absolutely needed (and from there if I want to render further I'd go in and define them according to their material and lighting, though usually I use blender/photos to help make the process faster).

Another example! If I turn this face into a 2-value scheme and overlay a randome texture onto it you can still read it as a face, because the basic structure is there and is intact. That's how those "details" work!

post ring era i almost wanted to give him black hair yknow why :)

ok black/greyish hair ver. under the cut

earlier period or something

Mairon but i jumped way too many steps so its... not ideal lol. Pray someday i get the willpower to redo a proper one >.>

edit: I changed my mind again. Red is better. ((i need someone to tell me to stop ruminating this and creating a million *slightly* different versions 💀💀💀💀💀))

guess it's "my lord" 🤔

also imagine he open mouth and inside is black like snake :3

edit: clean stuff up and add the earlier ver. under the cut

Normally don’t, but that’s because I don’t have proper character illustrations/concepts to offer other than melkor/mairon 😂.

end of first age hc

Album cover of Elend's Les Ténèbres du Dehors + Coph Nia's "Drinking to the Angel of the East" - (one day it suddenly clicked to me that Beleriand = the continent in the East lolol forces of good are all too often referred to as xyz of the west - being it ainur, or elves) and that song is now vibing

but yea its stretching a little into Luciferean references.