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"By a tree in the woods there read a hobbit."

What? Am I dreaming? Is this true? DID I ACTUALLY SUBMIT ACTUAL ARTWORK TO DEVIANTART?!?!?! Well, I am more than happy to say yes.

So, it's been more than a year since my last submission. September of 2011 to be exact. THAT IS A LOT OF TIME. Many things have happened in that year. I joined Tumblr and became woman with an uncontrollable addiction for fictional characters and celebrities elder than 30. I also finished my first year of high school, and even when I should be currently in my final year (maybe some of you remember that I actually had to repeat a school year) I feel very satisfied with myself. I also turned 18 less than a month ago. I made many new friends, lost others, and being honest, my life is a complete mess. But a good mess, so don't worry.

Anyway, enough life events, the point is I'm BACK after an
extremely long hiatus, which ended (I hope) for various of reasons:
1.- I got a new computer to work in (not exclusively mine, but of the family)
2.- My birthday and christmas finally happened, so I got myself a brand new tablet.
3.- The Hobbit was released.
Now, you may be asking yourselves "Why is the third one important? It's not as if it is a life-changing event". Well, for me it was.
I first watched Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring when I was just 7 years old, about the same time I read my first "real" book: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. I remember not being able to go to the theater to see The Two Towers when it was released, and waiting for the DVD to come out to finally watch it. I remember how scared I was of Gollum. I remember December 2003, when The Return of the King, the final chapter of the trilogy finally arrived to the big screen. That was the first time I was actually excited for a movie to come out. I remember everything about that day. After that, I watched all the Lord of the Rings films countless of times.
In 2006, I found out that the makers of this wonderful movies were planning on making "The Hobbit". I had no idea what it was at first, but after someone explained it to me, I was indeed very excited. But I still could not get the grasp of it. I followed the news of the project in the next years, with no real news to find out about, and my eagerness faded away quickly. And then... four years ago, when I had nothing else to do, I decided to go for a copy of the book and start reading the Hobbit. It took me no more than 3 days to finish it, and I knew I was in love. The book made me remember the world Tolkien had created, and I watched the movies again as soon as I could. After that, I bought the extended edition with all that extra material about how the movie was made. I was already a movie-lover by then, but after looking at all the work of Peter Jackson and his team, all that work and all that passion put together to create such an amazing thing, made me decide what I wanted to do for a living. I decided back then that I wanted to be a film-maker.
Also, after reading The Hobbit, my interest for the movie adaptation woke from it's slumber, and again I began to search for all the information I could about the developments of the movie. When the trailer was released - I kid you not - actual tears fell from my eyes as soon as the first words were spoken. You can imagine my state by the time the dwarves were singing "Misty Mountains".
In the early months of 2012 the Production Videos began to come out on the internet, and suddenly it was happening, it wasn't a ghost-production anymore. Every time they came out, I watched carefully, trying to figure out what part of the book they were filming, or how much I liked the design of this or that character.
A year passed by, and as all of you know, the so expected movie came out the 14 of December, just a few days before my birthday. Of course, I went straight away to watch it from day one, and I realized how much I had missed when I was a little kid and couldn't go to the releases of The Lord of the Rings.
The lights faded, the music started, and The Hobbit began. Suddenly, I was 7 years old again.

I don't think there is a way to describe my feelings for the books of Tolkien and its adaptations. They were part of my childhood, and eventually made me who am I now. I became a better person because of these movies, and they have inspired me more than anyone has ever done. This film made me realize what I wanted to become for the rest of my life, even when the chances of making a movie of that scale are about one in a million.
Middle-Earth is a world that lives extremely close to my heart, and I ofter wish I could close my eyes and be resting on my hobbit hole, just before a wandering wizard arrived and took me on an adventure.
And thus how this drawing was made. After watching the Hobbit, I decided to do something more than just sketches. If I wanted to improve, than I had to stop sitting on my ass.
Trust me when I say that I have never worked so hard on a drawing before. It may not be great, or nearly as good at most of the art out there, but it definitely is me doing the best I can. For god's sake, it is the first time I do and actual background for a change.
So this character is me, and how I imagine myself in that fictional world. It means a lot to me, and it has finally dragged me out of that horrible's artist block that lasted more than a year. I am finally daring to experiment a little, try new things. What a better start than a hobbit huh?

God, that got longer than I expected. Much longer. I've been writing for twenty minutes now, but I guess I needed to get that out of my chest. If you just read all that, and are still here, then I thank you. Seriously, I love you for listening for what I have to say, few people actually do that for me in real life.

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"By a tree in the woods there read a hobbit."

What? Am I dreaming? Is this true? DID I ACTUALLY SUBMIT ACTUAL ARTWORK TO DEVIANTART?!?!?! Well, I am more than happy to say yes.

So, it's been more than a year since my last submission. September of 2011 to be exact. THAT IS A LOT OF TIME. Many things have happened in that year. I joined Tumblr and became woman with an uncontrollable addiction for fictional characters and celebrities elder than 30. I also finished my first year of high school, and even when I should be currently in my final year (maybe some of you remember that I actually had to repeat a school year) I feel very satisfied with myself. I also turned 18 less than a month ago. I made many new friends, lost others, and being honest, my life is a complete mess. But a good mess, so don't worry.

Anyway, enough life events, the point is I'm BACK after an
extremely long hiatus, which ended (I hope) for various of reasons:
1.- I got a new computer to work in (not exclusively mine, but of the family)
2.- My birthday and christmas finally happened, so I got myself a brand new tablet.
3.- The Hobbit was released.
Now, you may be asking yourselves "Why is the third one important? It's not as if it is a life-changing event". Well, for me it was.
I first watched Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring when I was just 7 years old, about the same time I read my first "real" book: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. I remember not being able to go to the theater to see The Two Towers when it was released, and waiting for the DVD to come out to finally watch it. I remember how scared I was of Gollum. I remember December 2003, when The Return of the King, the final chapter of the trilogy finally arrived to the big screen. That was the first time I was actually excited for a movie to come out. I remember everything about that day. After that, I watched all the Lord of the Rings films countless of times.
In 2006, I found out that the makers of this wonderful movies were planning on making "The Hobbit". I had no idea what it was at first, but after someone explained it to me, I was indeed very excited. But I still could not get the grasp of it. I followed the news of the project in the next years, with no real news to find out about, and my eagerness faded away quickly. And then... four years ago, when I had nothing else to do, I decided to go for a copy of the book and start reading the Hobbit. It took me no more than 3 days to finish it, and I knew I was in love. The book made me remember the world Tolkien had created, and I watched the movies again as soon as I could. After that, I bought the extended edition with all that extra material about how the movie was made. I was already a movie-lover by then, but after looking at all the work of Peter Jackson and his team, all that work and all that passion put together to create such an amazing thing, made me decide what I wanted to do for a living. I decided back then that I wanted to be a film-maker.
Also, after reading The Hobbit, my interest for the movie adaptation woke from it's slumber, and again I began to search for all the information I could about the developments of the movie. When the trailer was released - I kid you not - actual tears fell from my eyes as soon as the first words were spoken. You can imagine my state by the time the dwarves were singing "Misty Mountains".
In the early months of 2012 the Production Videos began to come out on the internet, and suddenly it was happening, it wasn't a ghost-production anymore. Every time they came out, I watched carefully, trying to figure out what part of the book they were filming, or how much I liked the design of this or that character.
A year passed by, and as all of you know, the so expected movie came out the 14 of December, just a few days before my birthday. Of course, I went straight away to watch it from day one, and I realized how much I had missed when I was a little kid and couldn't go to the releases of The Lord of the Rings.
The lights faded, the music started, and The Hobbit began. Suddenly, I was 7 years old again.

I don't think there is a way to describe my feelings for the books of Tolkien and its adaptations. They were part of my childhood, and eventually made me who am I now. I became a better person because of these movies, and they have inspired me more than anyone has ever done. This film made me realize what I wanted to become for the rest of my life, even when the chances of making a movie of that scale are about one in a million.
Middle-Earth is a world that lives extremely close to my heart, and I ofter wish I could close my eyes and be resting on my hobbit hole, just before a wandering wizard arrived and took me on an adventure.
And thus how this drawing was made. After watching the Hobbit, I decided to do something more than just sketches. If I wanted to improve, than I had to stop sitting on my ass.
Trust me when I say that I have never worked so hard on a drawing before. It may not be great, or nearly as good at most of the art out there, but it definitely is me doing the best I can. For god's sake, it is the first time I do and actual background for a change.
So this character is me, and how I imagine myself in that fictional world. It means a lot to me, and it has finally dragged me out of that horrible's artist block that lasted more than a year. I am finally daring to experiment a little, try new things. What a better start than a hobbit huh?

God, that got longer than I expected. Much longer. I've been writing for twenty minutes now, but I guess I needed to get that out of my chest. If you just read all that, and are still here, then I thank you. Seriously, I love you for listening for what I have to say, few people actually do that for me in real life.