Lord of the Watercolour :P

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I had to try out my new watercolours, of course. They are Blockx - an excellent Belgian brand of which up until last week I had never even heard. I bought 25 colours at a 50 % discount because, alas, the art shop in my street that used to carry them is going to stop selling Blockx :(. My guess is that they are just too expensive and in times of

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[lunafish]

Ooo, I'm so jazzed to see LotR elves, and I actually quite like the "generic" elves, esp. that close up, maybe even more so than Elrond. There's such a lovely, pensive quality there.

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Thank you! :D

Ah, to be honest, I can crank out the Generic Elves by the dozen. These little profiles come very easily to me (in fact they are among the few things that come to me easily art-wise XD). Whenever I have trouble with something else I do one of these - they tend to turn out well and give me a tiny boost... I have been thinking I should paint them more often just by way of warming-up and exercise.

[mary_j_59]

Well, I think they're lovely! It's true, I guess, that Tolkien doesn't spend a lot of time describing his characters, but there were times when Jackson simply ignored the descriptions on the page. Example: Boromir and Faramir are both dark-haired in the book; Jackson made them blond. And he does describe Frodo pretty well: "Taller than some and fairer than most; a perky chap with a cleft in his chin-". Book Frodo has rather fair hair and (if I'm remembering rightly) hazel eyes; Sam should be brown-haired and brown-eyed. Jackson made Frodo blue-eyed, and Sam blond. Go figure.

On the whole, though, I've got to say, the movie is well cast - even though nobody looks quite the way I imagine them. I do like your Elrond rather better than movie Elrond, though! I just never imagined Elrond looking at all like Hugo Weaving!

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LOL! I loved reading Elfquest as a teen, so when I thought of Elrond, and any other of the Tolkien Elves, I rather imagined them like the High Ones or the elves of the Blue Mountain. In the meantime, of course, I am very much influenced by the films, and I agree that the casting was quite good. The only time I really went "huh?!" when I read the book version and compared it to the film character was when I encountered the passages about Denethor. I find Denethor quite detestable in the film (not the actor's fault, I might add) - in the book he isn't quite so impossible and stupid and incompetent, and he gets compared to Aragorn, which in the film wouldn't be at all apt. Also, there is an explanation to how he gets so pessimistic and finally crazy. In the film he's just plain horrible all the time

[mary_j_59]

I so agree about both Theoden and Denethor - the two old men who are very deliberately contrasted and compared in the books. Both are diminished in Jackson's films. A very bright young girl (Greek Orthodox), talking to me about the films, said, "They take honor away from some characters to give it to others". She - and I - didn't like what the filmmakers did to Treebeard, either, nor the diminishment of Sam. Sean Astin (like Sean Bean) nails his character down so thoroughly that the absurdities in the script don't really matter. And Theoden, in the final film, is close to the character as written. I wish that were true of both Faramir and his father, and that we'd gotten to see some of Eowyn and Faramir's conversation on film

[themostepotente]

Mmm, your Elrond is sex on a stick <3

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Hee hee! Because I'm me, that is probably accidental ;P. Glad you like him!

[snarkysneak]

It would take me forever to draw what you did in five minutes and it wouldn't look an eighth as good. I liked them a lot. :)

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Thank you very much! I guess this is my comfort zone... :-)

[cabepfir]

I am, as you can see, totally out of lj these days (in fact, I haven't opened my own lj in one month!) and I had almost skipped this entry. I'm afraid that Hugo Weaving will always be Agent Smith for me. One week ago I watched Cloud Atlas and Weaving features in multiple roles there. I still thought of him as Agent Smith, though ;) In any case, Cloud Atlas is excellent and I highly recommend it.

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"Agent Smith"? I have to confess I haven't seen a single film with Hugo Weaving in it apart from the LotR trilogy XD. I know, I know, bettyboop_comic is always telling me I have no pop culture...

Do you think he looks very "Weaving"? I'm just a bit bothered by the fact that lately I seem to be drawing all faces the same way, and I thought that using a real person as a model might yield some variation - though my aim is not to do an actor portrait.

[cabepfir]

Agent Smith from The Matrix. He continued to work with the Wachowski siblings in V for Vendetta and in Cloud Atlas that is the film I'm currently in love with.

I do believe your Elrond resembles Hugo Weaving, but not in a slavish way.