So the summary of my stuff for the session:
scenery stuff:
Keep Helevorn from the north
Keep Helevorn from the south:
Minas Tirith (updated)
I did some sketches of Vinyamar, the palace and the throne before, here is the new Vinyamar landscape, and the general city structure, but I'm not decided on the detailed architecture. I wanna draw the palace some time.
character designs: (here I didn't get as far as I wanted, semester proved a bit tougher than expected. But still, it's a start.)
tevildo sketchery: Here I first did some cat sketching, big cats, small cats, cat faces... like a kitty cheatsheet. And then I tried to mix and match a bit and look what that does. Generally I think the Lion's and the Tigers faces are a bit too removed from cats, but I like them having a bit of a mane. Also the size question: I think they can get quite big but not as bulky and rectangular as the biggest tigers, I don't really like that shape for the sleek kind of action/vibe of Tevildo and his forces. Also I wonder if there is like a beehive-like hierarchy with Tevildo and his cats, so there's a lot of different sizes and shapes of cats for different tasks. The range could go as far as from smaller tigers to bigger wildcats. Or are Tevildo's cats more homogenous?
Also, do they need pattern, for camouflage etc/are a bit darker? Again there different kinds of patterns might be useful to make distinction between different cats. I'm not that good at drawing cats in "battle" yet I'd have to practise that. But I have the start of a picture in my drawing app where I'm trying to have a little action scene at night in the woods. But that's not ready for review ;D Generally Tevildo & co for me are very much still work in progress.
Thuringwethil WIP: I've had the vague picture of Thuringwethil reporting back to Morgoth and flying in&retransforming, but idk I'm not sure yet how she looks as a giant bat, how that transformation goes etc. But this has been sitting around in my drawing app for a while. Also I'll probably separate the transformation into 3 pictures by zooming into the same background for the second "stage" an even more for the 3rd, instead of having the whole transformation in one picture. But yeah this very vague still.
another sketch-sheet (a bit of an older one) where I try to sort out how I feel about dragons and still am not sure. I wanna do a Glaurung sometime. We'll see
And my little dwarf experiment (responding to the season 3 bearded-dwarf-ladies challenge by the hosts): If you had a male and a female dwarf from the same family that resemble each other, have similar clothing & grooming styles, jobs etc, and they both have beards, how would the differences between men and women show? Would they even show as much? Should they show more? Also how much of a spectrum of masculinity-femininity is there, not only between male and female dwarves but also within the genders. That's what I tried to find out here.
I personally have nothing against a little confusion in the viewers in the beginning, it could be even more confusing, (that might be the reason why elves and humans don't know about female dwarves, because if they ever see one they might miss it) but if the decision is to have a marked difference then I wanted to demonstrate it's possible without retreating to the "safer" position of having only very slightly bearded dwarf women.
I won't be able to attend the session but I'm looking forward to listening after the fact, I love this kind of episode.