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This is an illustration for a fanfic I wrote. (It's a moment from Chapter 3 ) I did a limited selection of scenes from the fic as comic pages in order to test out different methods and styles of making comic pages. This is not and will never be a full comic adaptation of the fic! There are just a few one-off pages that don't directly connect! (also some miscellaneous illustrations) I know there are a lot of full fic-to-comic projects on dA and this is not one of them. I do not have the patience, frankly, and I admire those who do.

This page is trying out brush pens and screentoning (which is what was used for much of the 13th guest). Sometimes, I feel as if some of the information conveyed in a page's art comes across better without color to overwhelm it and also it's faster, it's so much faster to do things this way

One advantage of grayscale is that there are no hues to muddy whatever you're clumsily trying to get across through values. Also, I like doing these thick inks and I don't think they always play well with full color.

Why is Boromir here?

Boromir is having trouble reconciling what happened with the Ring ( as in: knocking Frodo over and trying to take it) and is stunned to have heard that Gollum of all people apparently did a better job at not punching Frodo and taking the ring- according to Boromir's interpretation of what he's hearing, anyway. (Since all hobbits look very tiny to Boromir, he probably isn't able to completely appreciate how effectively Gollum's behavior can be constrained by having two hobbits with swords tell him not to try any funny stuff. To Boromir, Sam and Frodo do not look like a threat.)

At this point in time I thought Boromir would be having trouble occupying his mind (because the war he's been so focused on is suddenly over all but the cleanup). He therefore ends up seizing on the idea of talking to Gollum and maybe trying to figure out what went wrong in his life. Boromir appears to think highly of himself, and I thought that because of that,
a) he would take a personal failure very hard because he's not used to being disappointed with himself. I'm sure he's had failures in life but maybe not things he would consider blaming on a weakness of character.

b) if he were to perceive someone else as succeeding where he failed, he would be pretty impressed. Especially if it's the last person you would expect to do anything helpful. Now, we'll see if he stays impressed when he actually gets to talk with sméagol ¬‿¬

Gollum has only a vague idea of who Boromir is and is highly anxious to be approached by a stranger. I tried to convey this through visuals by representing Boromir as a looming shadow, instead of a sad man oozing regrets.

Description

This is an illustration for a fanfic I wrote. (It's a moment from Chapter 3 ) I did a limited selection of scenes from the fic as comic pages in order to test out different methods and styles of making comic pages. This is not and will never be a full comic adaptation of the fic! There are just a few one-off pages that don't directly connect! (also some miscellaneous illustrations) I know there are a lot of full fic-to-comic projects on dA and this is not one of them. I do not have the patience, frankly, and I admire those who do.

This page is trying out brush pens and screentoning (which is what was used for much of the 13th guest). Sometimes, I feel as if some of the information conveyed in a page's art comes across better without color to overwhelm it and also it's faster, it's so much faster to do things this way

One advantage of grayscale is that there are no hues to muddy whatever you're clumsily trying to get across through values. Also, I like doing these thick inks and I don't think they always play well with full color.

Why is Boromir here?

Boromir is having trouble reconciling what happened with the Ring ( as in: knocking Frodo over and trying to take it) and is stunned to have heard that Gollum of all people apparently did a better job at not punching Frodo and taking the ring- according to Boromir's interpretation of what he's hearing, anyway. (Since all hobbits look very tiny to Boromir, he probably isn't able to completely appreciate how effectively Gollum's behavior can be constrained by having two hobbits with swords tell him not to try any funny stuff. To Boromir, Sam and Frodo do not look like a threat.)

At this point in time I thought Boromir would be having trouble occupying his mind (because the war he's been so focused on is suddenly over all but the cleanup). He therefore ends up seizing on the idea of talking to Gollum and maybe trying to figure out what went wrong in his life. Boromir appears to think highly of himself, and I thought that because of that,
a) he would take a personal failure very hard because he's not used to being disappointed with himself. I'm sure he's had failures in life but maybe not things he would consider blaming on a weakness of character.

b) if he were to perceive someone else as succeeding where he failed, he would be pretty impressed. Especially if it's the last person you would expect to do anything helpful. Now, we'll see if he stays impressed when he actually gets to talk with sméagol ¬‿¬

Gollum has only a vague idea of who Boromir is and is highly anxious to be approached by a stranger. I tried to convey this through visuals by representing Boromir as a looming shadow, instead of a sad man oozing regrets.