Thorin Oakenshield | Fan Art

5 months ago

Hello again, my friends.

I hope I find you well. It's getting a little difficult keep my promise to keep a regular posting schedule as I'm shifting my attention to trying to get more work in the commercial industry side. That demands that I work on a lot of other unpaid art for my portfolio. But I'll try to keep a regular habit and post as often as one can.

Thorim Ebonite Dwerve.jpg

As promised from my prior post featuring my original character, here is a drawing I did that inspired it. This a fan art drawing of Thorin Oakenshield from Tolkien's Hobbit. this was done for my portfolio.

The idea was just to portrait Thorin how I see him in my head. I feel that this is way more faithful to his described character in the books. To boot, I tried humanizing a dwarve so I used my face in part as a reference to his likeness. Admittedly, I look nothing like this handsome fellow.

Process

There isn't much that can be said about my process since I followd a charcoal technique that I used to use when I started learning and making art. The process requires me to follow a very simple process that involves: form block in, framing and erasing. Following that, I build up the lighting. I then tone the drawing with a gradient map to define and separate the shadow and light value.

Thorin Ebonite_collage.jpg