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(drawn 3-23-19; made with MediBang Paint Pro)

I wanted to do at least one of the drawings this week with my character design from last year. As the week went on, I was sort of starting to run out of days in which to do that because I kept accidentally doing new(ish) designs, so I finally decided to assign that to day 6. Amrod and Amras were not going to get an impromptu redesign.

...but they got it anyway. It kind of started because I usually have them wearing green but then I noticed that nobody had worn yellow yet in this series, and then it just kind of spiraled out from there.

I did a sketch for this one that I was happy with...and then immediately deviated from it as I started drawing Amrod. When I got to Amras, this caused me to end up with me doing an awkward mix of my original sketch and something off the cuff for him.

That's enough talk about for the stuff that didn't go as planned: the layout, on the other hand--with all the blank space--was mostly intentional. The initial reasoning was that it allowed Amrod's necklace which Amras is holding to be in one of those four "attention corners" (I don't remember what the technical word for them is, bear with me), but when I'd finished the sketch I realized there was a sort of spatial imbalance which I ended up liking because imbalance is sort of the point of this piece...

The whole week I've been using "Hymn for the Missing" by Red as my drawing mood music, but today I added Blacklite District's "The Struggle" to the mix because it seemed like it sort of fit.

(Amrod and Amras are from J.R.R. Tolkien's book "The Silmarillion".)

Description

(drawn 3-23-19; made with MediBang Paint Pro)

I wanted to do at least one of the drawings this week with my character design from last year. As the week went on, I was sort of starting to run out of days in which to do that because I kept accidentally doing new(ish) designs, so I finally decided to assign that to day 6. Amrod and Amras were not going to get an impromptu redesign.

...but they got it anyway. It kind of started because I usually have them wearing green but then I noticed that nobody had worn yellow yet in this series, and then it just kind of spiraled out from there.

I did a sketch for this one that I was happy with...and then immediately deviated from it as I started drawing Amrod. When I got to Amras, this caused me to end up with me doing an awkward mix of my original sketch and something off the cuff for him.

That's enough talk about for the stuff that didn't go as planned: the layout, on the other hand--with all the blank space--was mostly intentional. The initial reasoning was that it allowed Amrod's necklace which Amras is holding to be in one of those four "attention corners" (I don't remember what the technical word for them is, bear with me), but when I'd finished the sketch I realized there was a sort of spatial imbalance which I ended up liking because imbalance is sort of the point of this piece...

The whole week I've been using "Hymn for the Missing" by Red as my drawing mood music, but today I added Blacklite District's "The Struggle" to the mix because it seemed like it sort of fit.

(Amrod and Amras are from J.R.R. Tolkien's book "The Silmarillion".)