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The Making of The Quest Fulfilled: Part 7
By  Anke Katrin Eissmann.
Completion of the picture
"Carcharoth is also finished, as well as the vegetation in the foreground.
It is a piece of luck that he is lying in the background, so I could leave him
rather vague, and I haven't had to show his legs since they are concealed.
"To paint the background I made several sketches directly on the paper
and erased what I didn't like. The empty background wasn't looking so bad, but
I drew the leaves because I imagined the scene to be on a clearing in the woods
and rather liked to have a dark background fitting the oppressive atmosphere.
Then I applied with Indigo blue some more shadow where I considered it to be
necessary (i.e. in the faces), and accentuated some lines which I wanted to
be visible as sharp edges with pencil."
The picture is usually finished after about one week of work. It is signed
and afterwards scanned by Anke and is then sent per e-mail to fans and webmasters.
I finally locate the respective quote in the book and put the illustration
online.
"Then quickly and in fear Mablung took it and set it in Beren's
living hand; and Beren was roused by the touch of the Silmaril, and held
it aloft, and bade Thingol receive it. 'Now is the Quest achieved,' he
said, 'and my doom full-wrought'; and he spoke no more."
If you have questions about this Making Of, or want some additional explanations,
then send an e-mail either to Anke or
to me. You can also see the original tutorial at
FARP Article Guestbook
| Date | Name | Comment | | | 21 Oct 2003 |  Michael James Liljenberg | Thank you for letting us republish this article. | |
| 22 Oct 2003 |  Anna Tordai | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Thats an awesome picture!! | |
| 15 Dec 2003 |  Emilie ~*Nienna Vala*~ Dingler | 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> | 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 | 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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