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bunnSorry, Tumunzahar!
I originally gave the Dwarves larger beards, but Pp pointed out that it's the Dwarves of Khazad Dum and the Lonely Mountain that are called the Longbeards, and that therefore Tumunzahar dwarves might be supposed to have smaller beards. You can see that as usual it was looking promising in pencil and went all a bit pearshaped when I coloured it. I should have avoided giving Caranthir such a clashing palette of colours, and stuck to greens and blues, or at least a slightly more subdued red and paler grey. Also it would probably be a better picture without the mine in the background, and the lighting is a bit dull. Better lighting would make it much more interesting. On the other hand, I do like the dwarves faces and the oldest dwarf's plait.
"No great love was there between them; for the Dwarves were secret and quick to resentment, and Caranthir was haughty and scarce concealed his scorn for the unloveliness of the Naugrim, and his people followed their lord. Nevertheless since both peoples feared and hated Morgoth they made alliance, and had of it great profit; for the Naugrim learned many secrets of craft in those days, so that the smiths and masons of Nogrod and Belegost became renowned among their kin, and when the Dwarves began again to journey into Beleriand all the traffic of the dwarf-mines passed first through the hands of Caranthir, and thus great riches came to him. "
Maybe I should have made the Dwarves uglier.
I originally gave the Dwarves larger beards, but Pp pointed out that it's the Dwarves of Khazad Dum and the Lonely Mountain that are called the Longbeards, and that therefore Tumunzahar dwarves might be supposed to have smaller beards. You can see that as usual it was looking promising in pencil and went all a bit pearshaped when I coloured it. I should have avoided giving Caranthir such a clashing palette of colours, and stuck to greens and blues, or at least a slightly more subdued red and paler grey. Also it would probably be a better picture without the mine in the background, and the lighting is a bit dull. Better lighting would make it much more interesting. On the other hand, I do like the dwarves faces and the oldest dwarf's plait.
"No great love was there between them; for the Dwarves were secret and quick to resentment, and Caranthir was haughty and scarce concealed his scorn for the unloveliness of the Naugrim, and his people followed their lord. Nevertheless since both peoples feared and hated Morgoth they made alliance, and had of it great profit; for the Naugrim learned many secrets of craft in those days, so that the smiths and masons of Nogrod and Belegost became renowned among their kin, and when the Dwarves began again to journey into Beleriand all the traffic of the dwarf-mines passed first through the hands of Caranthir, and thus great riches came to him. "
Maybe I should have made the Dwarves uglier.
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Date: 2016-11-06 06:42 pm (UTC)I like the dwarves a lot in both versions.
I suppose one could say Caranthir looks more haughty in the coloured version, but it seems to come at the cost of his looking a bit less animated altogether.
(There seems to be an absence of the squinting trolls your earlier post had led me to expect.)
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Date: 2016-11-06 09:49 pm (UTC)I think there's an intrinsic composition issue with a picture where one of the people is roughly twice the height of the others and unlikely to want to kneel to level things out.