The Making of The Quest Fulfilled: Part 2

Drafts of the character of Huan and Beleg

A first sketch of Huan (the hound at the side of Beren) and of Morgoth's wolf Carcharoth, who has been killed by Huan and lies behind Beren. "I had the problem with the two dogs that I don't have much experience in drawing them. But luckily I found some images of wolfs in books about animals. Of course, the animals had not the posture I needed, but I could imagine that somehow. I was instantly relatively content with the sketch of Huan. Carcharoth was difficult to draw due to his complicated position. But the two sketches were sufficient to give me an impression how his legs etc. have to be placed, since he is not that visible in the background."

Two sketches of Beleg in different positions. He is kneeling to Beren's right and grieving for him. "Beleg's character and his appearance was familiar to me, since I have drawn and painted him several times for the illustrations of "Narn i Hîn Húrin". So I knew how his face and his haircut should look (oddly enough I have always imagines him to have short hair), and what clothing and weapons he should wear. He should be distinguishable from Mablung through his quiver with the arrows. I omitted the bow because I imagined it to be lying out of sight on the floor. And I experimented a little bit with his posture: he should in any case be kneeling on one leg and have the other one bent. Since Mablung was going to be in a similar posture and his left knee is on the floor, I chose the other one for Beleg. A problem over which I pondered for a long time was, if the belt of the quiver should be running over or under his coat. In the end I just made a try, and then knew in which places his coat is gathered, and where the wrinkles are."

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Date	Name	Comment
21 Oct 2003	Michael James Liljenberg	Loading... Thank you for letting us republish this article.
22 Oct 2003	Anna Tordai	Loading... Wow from the image it is obvious a lot of work went into it but now you can see just how much work. It's very nice to see an artists technique bit by bit.
25 Oct 2003	Jonathan Mayer	Loading... Wow, I really admire your technique. I don't think I have ever spent that much preparation time and sketching on a painting. Beautiful work, keep it coming!
30 Oct 2003	Iris compiet	Loading... This has to be one of the best I've read in months. I myself try to do some watercolor but don't succeed very much. I seem to smudge and smear. Sometimes, occasionaly there is one which succeeds but the rest is crap. Now I know a different way of working I'll give it a try. Hope to show the result soon. Thanks for teaching.
31 Oct 2003	Rhodri McCormack	Loading... Yeah great article, best here easily. Was thinking of doing a water colour next, so this was good timeing for me. Thanks man.
20 Nov 2003	Mike D	Loading... Thats an awesome picture!!
15 Dec 2003	Emilie ~*Nienna Vala*~ Dingler	Loading... It's seriously gorgeous, but I have a question. In Mablung's hair and his broach, there are white lines, as detail... How do you do those? Do you leave space blank? Or do you go over it in white?
15 Jul 2004	Topaz Waters <etvermette@hot...com>	Loading... Oh wow. Wow wow wow. AMAZING pic-- and thank you for being so informative, I'm awful at watercolors and I'm trying to see if I can improve a bit. Great article!
5 Jun 2006	Anonymous	Loading... This really is amazing! Not only because it is just a beautiful watercolor, because you showed us the sketched stages. Most tutorials start after the sketches are done, and I really like how we got to see the conceptual stages. So thank you very much.

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