The Somewhat Odd and Mostly Random Musings and Writings of a Young Would-Be Author
Showing posts with label fanart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fanart. Show all posts
Friday, February 22, 2013
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Hobbit Spam
Oh look, it's Hobbit fanart spam time again.
FIRST CHAPTER COVER OF MY HOBBIT PARODY. =D I'm a tease because I won't have the first page for a while. >.> But yeah. Here it is. I'm quite proud of how it turned out. :3
('Clowder' is the official name for a group of cats. I am not changing it, even if nobody knows what it is.)
Bloody heirs of Durin. (take it literally or as a swear word. Both work, because they are bloody and because they're bloody ruining my life.)
Modern Fili and Kili. that's a satchel not a purse ok
Little doodle of Kitty!Dis, Thorin's sister.
('Clowder' is the official name for a group of cats. I am not changing it, even if nobody knows what it is.)
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Fili-Kili-Thorin-Dwalin kitties
Trufax: Quill actually has no idea how to use pens. Anyways, 'tis the Mirkwood scene, where our dearest burglar has gotten all of the dwarves out of their cells...but they don't like his plan.
Is it funnier with cats? I don't even know anymore. I did have fun drawing all of them, though.
Fili/Kili/Thorin/Dwalin concept art. Not sure what color Dwalin is yet, so he's not got any color. Kili's beard is hard. Not going with any of these as final designs.
Kili and Fili. Finally got Kili's beard to look sort of right...still not entirely happy with it. Fili is probably final. Not sure about Kili yet.
Is it funnier with cats? I don't even know anymore. I did have fun drawing all of them, though.
Fili/Kili/Thorin/Dwalin concept art. Not sure what color Dwalin is yet, so he's not got any color. Kili's beard is hard. Not going with any of these as final designs.
Kili and Fili. Finally got Kili's beard to look sort of right...still not entirely happy with it. Fili is probably final. Not sure about Kili yet.
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Moar Compawny of Kittin Oakenshield, and some legit art
First, some legit art.
American Bobtail cat--looks like watercolor but it's actually COPIC markers on tracing paper. Mysteriously enough, they blend and work JUST LIKE water color on tracing paper. o.o
Next: a Ranger, from John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series. It might be Gilan. IDK. COPICs on tracing paper again.
And...the Compawny of Kittin Oakenshield is a serious project of mine, now. I'm mostly doing it as an exercise in character design, but I would like to turn it into a graphic novel (which shall of course go unpublished XD). So, some Compawny sketches.
1. Bilbo Kittens and Catdalf the gray--color test, I suppose, and working out what they might look like on a comic book page. (or maybe I just wanted to draw Bilbo 'cause he's freakin 'adorable as a cat)
American Bobtail cat--looks like watercolor but it's actually COPIC markers on tracing paper. Mysteriously enough, they blend and work JUST LIKE water color on tracing paper. o.o
Next: a Ranger, from John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series. It might be Gilan. IDK. COPICs on tracing paper again.
And...the Compawny of Kittin Oakenshield is a serious project of mine, now. I'm mostly doing it as an exercise in character design, but I would like to turn it into a graphic novel (which shall of course go unpublished XD). So, some Compawny sketches.
1. Bilbo Kittens and Catdalf the gray--color test, I suppose, and working out what they might look like on a comic book page. (
Next: Furrum, or Smeagrowl. He's based on a Sphynx; some quick character design sketches. Still not entirely happy with it, nor am I very good at drawing it consistently. XD (Scan quality is terrible. My scanner ruined it. ;-;)
And some preliminary sketches of the Compawny interacting (with Bilbo because Bilbo is still adorable).
"I'll have you know I'm a fair paw at conkers";
"What was that?" "Orcs, most likely." "And Wargs."
"What have I got in my pockets?"
"One collar to rule them all" --changed it to a bracelet in the drawing because a collar would be unwieldy to slip on and off, and forgot to change the text.
"Useless hobbit"
And Bilbo is fed up and snarling.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
The Compawny of Kittin Oakenshield
'Kay, so. This is currently my baby.
Kíline, Fíline, Bomcat, Thrandmewl, Kittin Oakenshield, Bofurry, Bilbo Kittens, Mewrandir/Catdalf the Gray, and Balinese.
These are the concept sketches I have of the characters as cats so far. I think I'm probably going to give them all colored hoods like in the book to help with differentiating.
Now. Prepare for copious headcanon and mangling of Tolkien's works. XD
Dwarves tend to be small. While it depends on the dwarf, they are also often stocky. They're not any particular breed of cat; they tend to look like the small to mid-sized mongrel cats that a lot of people have. Their fur grows like hair in the places a lion's mane would, and also thickens around the whiskers (why dwarves are considered to be a bit dense; sometimes their mustaches get in the way of their whiskers and obscure their senses). It can be trimmed and styled, usually with the help of family members. XD When their fur gets long, it sometimes develops colored tips (ever seen fur that was one color at the base, but was tipped with a different color?) and darkens, making their "beards" and "mustaches" look like a different color.
The elves tend to be long and lean breeds, for instance Abyssinians, with skinny tails and thin fur. Their ears are the large thin kind, not necessarily more pointy than anyone else's but definitely more noticeable. They're taller than dwarves, of course. Their fur grows like dwarves in all places but the chin. They like to keep their cheek tufts long, though, sometimes with thin braids in it.
Bilbo is what is known in real life as a 'dwarf cat'. Dwarf cats in real life have legs about half as short as regular cats, which makes them perfect to be hobbits. In my headcanon, he's also smaller in body than the dwarves. Hobbits have large paws with thick fur that curls when it grows long. They have fur that grows the same way elf fur does, but they keep it cropped.
Men, and some of the Maiar (or wizards), are big, stocky breeds, like American Bobtails. (Catdalf is based off of an American Bobtail, though obviously without the bob.) Their fur grows like dwarf fur.
Ponies in this universe are used mainly as pack animals. Goblins are all Sphynxes. Orcs are larger and stockier, but maintain the same hairlessness as the goblins do. Wargs are basically the same as in the book. XD Although, I scaled them down a little for this universe, so they aren't ridiculously huge in comparison to the kitties. And...let's see... yep. Oh, and Beorn and the skinchangers are reversed, so that their normal forms are bears/whatnot and their changed forms are men. ^.^
And...the One Ring in this universe I was considering making a collar, but that would be difficult to slip on and off. So I made it more like a bracelet thing. Furrum/Smeagrowl (Gollum) wore it on his paws because in his long stint of cave-dwelling (instead of developing the tendency to go on all fours) developed the tendency to sit up on two paws, hunched over. Bilbo wears it the same way sometimes, but he runs around too much for that to be practical in most situations, so he also wears it on his tail sometimes too.
...I put way too much thought into this.
Anyways, I have some vague thoughts of making a comic of this, or putting together some parody scenes with the kitties, but I'm not entirely sure. XD So for now, just have my ridiculous headcanon and art.
Kíline, Fíline, Bomcat, Thrandmewl, Kittin Oakenshield, Bofurry, Bilbo Kittens, Mewrandir/Catdalf the Gray, and Balinese.
These are the concept sketches I have of the characters as cats so far. I think I'm probably going to give them all colored hoods like in the book to help with differentiating.
Dwarves tend to be small. While it depends on the dwarf, they are also often stocky. They're not any particular breed of cat; they tend to look like the small to mid-sized mongrel cats that a lot of people have. Their fur grows like hair in the places a lion's mane would, and also thickens around the whiskers (why dwarves are considered to be a bit dense; sometimes their mustaches get in the way of their whiskers and obscure their senses). It can be trimmed and styled, usually with the help of family members. XD When their fur gets long, it sometimes develops colored tips (ever seen fur that was one color at the base, but was tipped with a different color?) and darkens, making their "beards" and "mustaches" look like a different color.
The elves tend to be long and lean breeds, for instance Abyssinians, with skinny tails and thin fur. Their ears are the large thin kind, not necessarily more pointy than anyone else's but definitely more noticeable. They're taller than dwarves, of course. Their fur grows like dwarves in all places but the chin. They like to keep their cheek tufts long, though, sometimes with thin braids in it.
Bilbo is what is known in real life as a 'dwarf cat'. Dwarf cats in real life have legs about half as short as regular cats, which makes them perfect to be hobbits. In my headcanon, he's also smaller in body than the dwarves. Hobbits have large paws with thick fur that curls when it grows long. They have fur that grows the same way elf fur does, but they keep it cropped.
Men, and some of the Maiar (or wizards), are big, stocky breeds, like American Bobtails. (Catdalf is based off of an American Bobtail, though obviously without the bob.) Their fur grows like dwarf fur.
Ponies in this universe are used mainly as pack animals. Goblins are all Sphynxes. Orcs are larger and stockier, but maintain the same hairlessness as the goblins do. Wargs are basically the same as in the book. XD Although, I scaled them down a little for this universe, so they aren't ridiculously huge in comparison to the kitties. And...let's see... yep. Oh, and Beorn and the skinchangers are reversed, so that their normal forms are bears/whatnot and their changed forms are men. ^.^
And...the One Ring in this universe I was considering making a collar, but that would be difficult to slip on and off. So I made it more like a bracelet thing. Furrum/Smeagrowl (Gollum) wore it on his paws because in his long stint of cave-dwelling (instead of developing the tendency to go on all fours) developed the tendency to sit up on two paws, hunched over. Bilbo wears it the same way sometimes, but he runs around too much for that to be practical in most situations, so he also wears it on his tail sometimes too.
...I put way too much thought into this.
Anyways, I have some vague thoughts of making a comic of this, or putting together some parody scenes with the kitties, but I'm not entirely sure. XD So for now, just have my ridiculous headcanon and art.
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Mini Kili--colored!
By the way, it fascinates me that Kili's costume color scheme is almost identical to his uncle Thorin's (dark blue and gray), but Fili's is entirely different (warm tans, dark brown, some gray).
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
moar fili kili spam
These two are such cute kids.
Also, Kili was a brat in my headcanon.
Fili and Kili
I shall now proceed to spam you with Fili and Kili, because these boys are too adorable as children.
Thorin thinks many things about elves, none of which should be repeated--or voiced in front of his nephews.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Dwarf Bros
(I don't like how Fili's outfit and Kili's face turned out. Guess that means I got one dwarf out of two. That's decent enough.)
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