Aredhel ArFeiniel

Another elf picture, sorry! I really will have to try to draw some other things for variety

My scanner isn't great and hasn't picked up some of the lighter shading, sorry

This is my version of Irisse/Aredhel, daughter of Fingolfin etc from JRR Tolkiens 'Silmarillion'. A character I like and one of many which made me wish that either the published Silmarillion was about 4 times as long or that back in the day someone had wanted to publish while Mr. Tolkien was alive

I love how the hair turned out, but it took soooo long (12 hours or so) and my hand hurts now . Mechanical and sketch pencils on 135g paper.

26/08/11 - I haven't looked at this picture in a while and I can see a LOT of things wrong now (need to fix that parting in her hair, it makes her head look huge and also the face could use a little more shaping - oh and a few other things). In defence, I'd only been drawing consistently for about 4 months when I did this I might try to fix the faults anyway.