The story of “The Children of Hurin” has made the strongest impression on me since my first encounter with the Silmarillion, it was the story that was the first thing I began to illustrate in Tolkien’s Legendarium .
Perhaps by now I can already discern a pattern to what captures my attention and makes me create around the theme: - a terrible injustice in the face of which the characters show firmness and fortitude… As one of my artist friends said, “an impression is like a wound and you try to heal it with a painting”. The Children of Hurin is along with Atrabeth another such non-healing wound, I hope to return to this subject in the near future)
Sindarin Portraits pt2: Celeborn, Galathil, Mablung, and Beleg.
Here’s my chance to give Celeborn and Galathil some attention! There’s nothing much special about their designs other than being regular Doriath fashion XDD And since they’re close kin to Thingol, they have flower crowns!
Beleg and Mablung have similar colours due to being captains of Doriath. I neglected to include Mablung’s small braids and feather ornaments; if I ever draw him again, I’ll be sure to include those loll
