Now I'm Laying Down To Perish

Now I'm laying down to perish

And God knows where I'll go.

Now I'm laying down to perish--

I just wanted you to know.

I wanted you to know.

Just a preview of something I'm working on. Flat colours are such a silly looking stage of digital art. Btw, this is the first time I've ever drawn Legolas. What a funny looking guy.

Doing digital after years of avoiding it is a strange experience.

GUYS, this is so silly

But I had a little inspiration moment, and decided to design Eowyn's wedding dress for my fanfiction. It is not supposed to look like the one in the movie.

I first analysed some of the dresses she wore and wrote down some most prominent features.

Btw, I hate my scanner. The colours are wrong (the dress is too bright) and I don't know how to fix this. And I will not render this on my computer, at least not yet. I might actually draw her in this dress later on.

Now, I have written the consensus on the top, if you can read it. I wanted to include the v-neck, the poofy sleeves and the embroidery. I also took inspiration from some of the fabrics she wore.

I decided against the earthy tones, because this is a wedding dress after all and is supposed to stand out. I then remembered this blue dress she wore, which made me happy, because wearing blue again would not be out of character for her. And the yellow one on Aragorn's coronation, so bright colours are also fair game.

The purple fabric is supposed to look a bit like the one she wore in her mourning dress on the collar. Lilac with gold embroidery.

The veil is one of the pretty flowery ones I've seen so much on Pinterest.

Mind you, I did this in like an hour and a half. The anatomy might not be the greatest, but I needed to get this out of my head.

Also, why not white, you may ask? Well, white as a wedding dress colour became a thing after 1840 and it was a symbol of status. And I decided I didn't care. So I'm making her wear blue. Like the sky.

what if i decided i'm straight up not posting any new art publicly until that family's GFM in my pinned is at least Halfway to its goal

(even half my followers donating 5 bucks each would do that btw)

Hey 🤍

How would you feel if I printed out one of your portraits? Or is there something I could do for you?

No worries of you‘d feel weird about it and do not want it. It would only be for myself at home, we have a wall where we frame our favourite stuff.

Hello 🩷

Wow, I would be honoured. Of course you can, as long as you send me a picture once you get the print! I would love to see it.

Tumblr, sadly ruins the quality a lot, so I can mail you a better quality version if you want. Just write to me privately.

To answer your second question, what you can do for me is donate something (anything really) to one of the families on the Operation Olive Branch 🖤💚❤️ time is running out and it's an important cause.

Eowyn, 04.2024

I'm really happy with how this turned out, though the contast is much greater in real life. These are the limitations of traditional art, sadly.