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Hello! Do you take commissions?

Hey, no sorry I don't. Thank you for asking though! I appreciate it.

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sketching Tyelko

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Just to share my recent endeavours, I thought I'd link two short fanfictions I wrote and posted on AO3. As I've never written fanfics before, I'd be happy to hear if you like them or have any advice! First one is of Maglor and the latter Caranthir/Haleth.

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A red sun rises

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Maedhros and Maglor.

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Hey, where are you from?

Hey, from Finland!

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A red sun rises

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Annatar Lord of Gifts

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its official: tumblr is selling our data to Midjourney

we'd been hearing rumors about this for a bit but now its open and out there. some details from this article

it goes without saying, but if @staff goes through with this its going to be an utter shitshow and im all but certain the website will not survive it.

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young Celegorm in the Woods of Oromë

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I am in love with your art!!! How much time did it take you to draw as magnificently as you do? Do you have any tips for beginner artists?

Such an encouraging message since I constantly struggle with my works, so thank you very much! I started creating fan art maybe 5-6 years ago, but I had studied arts (although not drawing or painting) and still do. 

I piled some tips below, which I try to tell myself but maybe they would help you too: 

— look for references and inspiration, I especially like to look at actual art history books since I’ve noticed online it’s hard these days to separate images generated by ai from artworks (I especially love colours and light in rococo and renaissance works)

— I also use my own body as reference, and take loads of phone photos/videos of myself in different poses, especially useful for hands (!) or referencing how a fabric would fall on the floor

— personally I only draw/paint when I’m in the mood and take breaks (as I do fanart as a hobby) which helps me not to burn out and keeps things fun

— recently I’ve tried to use larger brush strokes in painting and focus on shapes and light rather than details, though I’m still learning this, as well as thought of a painting as a photograph where there's depth of field and not everything needs to be in 'focus'

Hope some of this is helpful, I think it really depends what kind of style you like to work with!

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wip of Aredhel Ar-Feiniel

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Your arts are gold! I hope I can draw like you someday.

Ah somehow I skipped this ask, thank you so much!

I think many of us don't see our own works in the same light as others', even though each work is precious and beautiful in their own way. Hope you spend many joyful moments while drawing <3

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i’ve seen a lot of stuff about celegorm being conflicted over rejecting the valar because of his friendship with orome so here are my two cents. curufin doesn’t approve of him reminiscing for obvious reasons