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'The ridge upon which the companions stood went down steeply before their feet. Below it twenty fathoms or more, there was a wide and rugged shelf which ended suddenly in the brink of a sheer cliff: the East Wall of Rohan. So ended the Emyn muil, and the green plains of the Rohirrim stretched away before them to the edge of sight.'JRR Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers: Book III , Chapter 2: The Riders of Rohan
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Painted in watercolour.
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Just wonderfully executed. I love the very traditionnal feel you put in your drawings, and I think it goes perfectly with the Lord of The Ring, or simply with the Middle Earth drawings you're doing. ♥
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Thanks so much for the kind words! Yes, I think this style works particularly well for Tolkien. I think it's simply how I envisaged it as I read, it's Tolkien's words more than anything that I try to depict as closely as possible. This is the end result
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Awesome art! The sky is so simple yet so visually appealing! Wonderful! If I may ask, what medium do you use?
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Thank you very much for the warm comment! I use watercolours.
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OH WOW. That's very surprising. I don't usually see watercolors used with this much details!
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Well, thanks again for the compliment 
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Oh, so did you have to wait for it to dry first before adding more paint?
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Yes precisely 
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Ah yes, I saw those too. What size of canvas/paper do you usually use? Err...do you use canvas or paper?
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Sorry for the late response! I use paper, either heavy-duty cartridge paper or watercolour paper (usually and preferably the former). My works are in various sizes from A5, A4 to A3 (the vast majority being the latter). This one is in fact a miniature A5 piece
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Oh, sorry. I didn't realise you'd looked around 
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Wow. How did you learn all these?! You're so good.
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Oops, sorry I just responded to the same comment rather than this one! Sorry (it was in my notifications still for some reason ...). I'm self-taught, I've just observed other artists over the years, and kept on practicing
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Oh no no no. You don't have to thank me. I'm learning a lot from you. I'm a bit worried about how I might be annoying. Hope it doesn't bother you that I ask too much.
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Glad you like, I'm still fond of the clouds in this one!
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This is excellent! My daughter and I just recently read this and it fits my mind's picture wonderfully.
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That's all I can ask for as an illustrator. Thanks so much, and I hope you're enjoying the read
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You are very welcome! We are enjoying the read immensely...it is her first time through the book
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Awesome!! when I think I'll go there very soon...
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That's an interesting perspective, and one that I haven't recognised myself. I like it though
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Im re-readng the Two Towers! I love these 3 characters
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I already commented this one on Elfwood, more than two years ago, but I need to do it now again. I'm just reading the chapter again, for I don't know how many times, and I had this image in mind again. Because you depicted it really just like I imagined it: the blue sky with the white clouds running above, the sudden breeze on the top of the hills... even the angle from which you portrayed the characters! Of course, there are some details that I imagined a different way, but those don't matter. You captured the feeling.
(And, BTW, if you were interested, here's my old, ooold sketch of Aragorn, the very first picture of him I ever made, probably eight or nine years ago. [link] So you can hopefully see what I meant in the above paragraph. I could do him better now, but I don't have to: you did it before me, and better than I ever could.)
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HEY-O! Just stopping by to let you know that this picture has been included in the [LORD OF THE RINGS] issue of Hidden Gems of Fan Art!
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Really fantastic picture! I love those clouds and.. I mean, amazing work!
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Beautiful. Simply beautiful - the composition, that open sky and the sense of all the grasslands of the horselords rolling away ahead of them. Fantastic job.
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it looks like u work hard on the clouds!! they awesome!! ^-^
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The sky is wonderful and the perspective is really well realized... I feel like I'm on that hill loking the vastity of the land...
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lovely clouds, wonderful feeling of space and airiness
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Very good....i love how you did the clouds...im a cloud freak myself..but actually i just realized alot of your tech. reminds me of Alan Lee...overall it is just wonderfully done
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Aaaahhhh.... When the world was young. This is quite refreshing. Nice work on the sky.
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Very nice landscape and use of colors, I like the clouds and the way you made this fog still lingering at the foot of the Emyn Muil. Great job!
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This is somewhat different from your other paintings it more loose... if that's the word? I like how how the focus is on the landscape.
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Wow. Just "wow"
Your control of watercolour is nothing short of amazing. Your palette is very strong, and evokes the 'high-epic' feeling (which Tolkien's work is). You captured the moment perfectly, in my opinion.
Beautiful!
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Ahh, truly lovely to see your rendition of the plains of Rohan!
I really really like the traditional-watercolour feel to it. It's a bit more "loose" than some of your other work. There is a really nice flow to it, colour wise. The texture and colours of the land in the foreground is delicious! All your works have such an organic feel. You have a good colour sense, it really does suit Tolkien's work.
There's a great feeling of "grandness." The clouds are massive and looming, and I think it really lends to the sparse, sweeping vistas of Rohan.
I love this.
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Apologies for the late reply on this one.
Thank you very much indeed. I wanted to make this a slightly epic piece, sort of symbolic that we're now at a different point in the book. The Fellowship's broken, the focus of the story now switches, and I wanted to depict that in a refreshing way. The huge brooding clouds are meant to show the storm that is coming ever closer, and I think that the Three Hunter's arrival in Rohan marks that turning point. Also, Tolkien describes the plains of rohan as a green-grey sea crashing in waves to the foot of the Emyn Muil, so I wanted to kind of make it mirror cliffs by the sea, with the grass literally swirling up in waves towards the rock (whilst still retaining a sense of realism of course). I don't know whether that's discernable or not, but I wanted to try that anyway. Again, thanks so much. Your comments are always brilliant!
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You certainly achieved that. Definitely. Love those brooding clouds!!
P.S- And I will comment on your latest arts....I've been all over the place lately.
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Oh, that's okay Nell. I fear I may be doing the same to others. Don't worry yourself
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