Browse the internet for Frodo stuff, and what do you find?

[mechtild]

OK, Here I have been -- avoiding writing my tiresome chapter -- and the internet (as ever) has been calling. Now, I have an LJ, I have access to the links of friends, but also to friends of friends, and to friends of those friends' friends, and so on. Browsing for anything Frodo-ish, I found out more than I have wanted to know, perhaps

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[elasg]

Actually, I believe that is a pencil sketch - I've seen it before and the artist does some lovely things, but that is one of my favorites.

Green Ghost's pic not a manip? It's a pencil sketch?

[mechtild]

Ariel, you wrote,

Actually, I believe that is a pencil sketch - I've seen it before and the artist does some lovely things, but that is one of my favorites.

You've seen this before and know the artist's work? It's a pencil sketch?
Wow! I confess I thought the pubic hairs peeking out at the extreme left looked very much like the sort of hairs and curls I've been trying to make using the "clone brush", making the "Art Travesties". But thank you for that note. I will edit it into the Journal Entry.

Ariel, as a matter of LJ form or etiquette, etc., if I find a picture like this, the way I did -- just Googling around -- is it all right to post it this way? Or do I need to track down the artist first and ask permission? If so, I will take it down.

Thanks!

~ Mechtild

Re: Green Ghost's pic not a manip? It's a pencil sketch?

[elasg]

Well, she may use the photo as a source, but I am fairly certain that is a sketch. I don't know her, but as an artist myself that would be my judgment.

As for the netiquette involved in photo sampling like that, I think it depends on the artist. Some dislike their work reproduced in any way and prefer you to link to it, others are more generous, though I am sure all want to be properly credited. You'd probably have to ask the artist involved, but I personally think you've credited it very properly and she has no reason to be upset. JMHO, though.

I also sampled several of yours that way *wink*. Properly credited, of course!

Re: Green Ghost's pic not a manip? It's a pencil sketch?

[mechtild]

Ah, Ariel, that's why I wondered if I was supposed to ask first. I remembered very well that you asked me before beginning to post my "travesties". *does a low courtesy* I, too, didn't mind if you or anyone displayed my stuff, as long as it was credited.

Perhaps I will look around for something about for this artist; if I see a link or contact I could ask her, and, see if she has done others this nice.

Re: Green Ghost's pic not a manip? It's a pencil sketch?

[elasg]

Yes, she's done several very nice ones and has a distinctive style. She's got one that is fairly well known that shows Frodo and Sam after the CoD that she modelled after a fairly famous war photo of two soldiers embracing. It is a lovely picture, very well done, but I have always felt it was a bit too 'wimpy, effeminate Frodo' for my taste, though, as we both know, my taste runs a bit different than most.

Here's one that was one of the Torn winners that I have always loved. It's possibly not as anatomically accurate as Green Ghost's, but I love the feel of it.

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[shoesparks]

The artist Is Kim Kincaid...
She is very good and has many more and much better at her little site.
Alas though, she is not into slash...

http://www.lotrfanart.net/members/kimkincaid/index.php

She has gotten better with time...

[elasg]

Ooooo! More goodies! Yes, she has gotten better over time! Very nice - though I think I still love that first one best. It has such emotional impact and realness to it. *sigh* I just love it. Thank you so much for this link!

thank you, shoesparks

[mechtild]

shoesparks, thanks so much for identifying the artist. Now that you have posted her link (thanks for that, too!), I realize I have seen some of her work before.

I agree with Ariel, though. The Pass of Cirith Ungol illustration is certainly her most powerful work of that group, and, I think, the best composition. I wouldn't mind seeing the original of that one.

Her technical skill as a draftsperson, however, shows more on her black and white pencil (?) portraits. Her ones of Gimli are especially fine. And that one of Sean Connery as what I THOUGHT was Gandalf - but turns out, after I checked another site, to be Thorin - oh, la la! That was a treat! I remember hearing how he was considered for the role.

~ Mechtild