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Fëanor! I feel I haven't done him justice in decades. I really like how he turned out here.

Fëanor is a character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Silmarillion. (And I cannot, ever, imagine him with long hair.)

Winsor&Newton watercolours on parkbench. Watercolour sketchbook, sorry. :D


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=Gold-Seven May 5, 2011  Professional Traditional Artist
No, he's expressly described as dark-haired in the Silmarilion. (Which can't be said about many characters in the Silmarillion...!)
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~JuhlallinenEnkeli May 6, 2011
Hmmm I guess Ill have to read it again. I have it, so I'll jump right on that lol
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~Feanoriel May 2, 2011
You've really progressed as an artist since the last time you drew Fëanorians. That's was my first though upon seeing this. His face looks so nicely 3-dimensional, and there's sense of depth.

Also, it's Fëanor. Awesome.
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=Gold-Seven May 9, 2011  Professional Traditional Artist
^^ Thanks!
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~Rusenare May 2, 2011
Sartorial loveliness, and very nice expression.
Question: What stands in the way of your visualization of Fëanor with long hair?
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=Gold-Seven May 5, 2011  Professional Traditional Artist
I've given this some more thought, and there's something else: I've discovered a striking tendency of mine to associate hair length with - don't laugh - vowels in a name.

Dark, masculine-sounding vowels and consonants (especially at the end) and/or strong-sounding cognomens - short hair. Maedhros the Tall, Feanor, Beleg Strongbow, Daeron, Thingol, Turgon, Túrin. (T in general looks very masculine to me. An -s at the end sounds like Roman or Greek names, who are all short-haired.)

Use if i and e, and soft consonants like n, d, l, f - long hair. Fingon, Finarfin, Fingolfin, Finrod, Finwe.

The long hair of Maglor the Mighty Singer is a mystery. :rofl:
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~Rusenare May 9, 2011
I'm not laughing; I'm thinking that's pretty cool.

Yes, T can look pretty masculine if your mind is dirty enough.
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=Gold-Seven May 9, 2011  Professional Traditional Artist
:rofl:

Now you've dirtied it. :D
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=Gold-Seven May 2, 2011  Professional Traditional Artist
The same that stands in the way of my visualisation of, say, Pippin with long hair. Preposterous, you say? Neither of them are ever described by Tolkien (other than hair colour in Feanor's case). They've been short-haired in my imagination for twenty and twenty-eight years, respectively. I've drawn them a few dozen times and they're simply short-haired in my head.
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~Scilens Apr 29, 2011
he just looks better with short hair ; )
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