Scorpion Honey

Some LotR and The Hobbit fanart

-Thranduil and Legolas. Probably gonna redo because I forgot to draw Thranduil holding his sword and crown, plus a bunch of other issues I have with the costume cause I didn’t really reference at all x’D

- Second row: More Thranduil and Legolas

- MORE OF THE MIRKWOOD ROYALS AH HA

- 4th row: Ok these were suppose to be my own original designs for the story but ehhhhhhhhhh u_u Also the first one is suppose to be of Gandalf and Bilbo in Beorn’s garden during the return journey.

- MORE SKETCHES of the Legolas Greenleaf and his buddy Gimli Elf-Friend. These were a bunch of brainstorming doodles for drawing I’ve been REALLY wanting to draw of them exploring Fangorn Forest after the War of the Ring.

My tolkien blog: http://glitteringgimli.tumblr.com/

Commissions are still OPEN! Prices have been reduced since I made them available earlier this summer.

Here’s a bunch of Groaning Cake sketches I did from either last month or earlier in the year. 

- Gwen and another mermaid. Also Gwen dipping her second son into the ocean  to “cleanse” him so that he will possess mermaids abilities (after becoming more worried of her husband’s strange behavior) but regrets not doing the same to her first born.

- Merry and early designs for the Lapis and Axinite King (who use to be the Jade King). Also a sketch of the Eudialyte King and another of him attempting sexually harass Merry. 

- Profiles of the four kings (I didn’t really know how I wanted the Lapis King to look yet so his is pretty sloppy)

- More sketches of the kings that were suppose to be in their war attire with their familiars. 

- Sketches of the Lapis and Axinite King when they were teenagers. They have been best friends since they were little which is why their kingdoms are in great relations.

- Merry holding his devil Thunder (basically what we call Tasmanian devils) which is the sacred animal for his tribe and serves as his familiar. When in battle it turns into a beast with a very long eel-like body with seven heads and many pairs of legs that can fly for periods of time. 

Also a sketch of Merry’s mother when she was young and was the current Obsidian King.

- Merry talking with the Eudialyte King. On the right is a sketch of Gwen in royal Lapis attire when she visits the Lapis King. Everyone (and even the Lapis King himself) believe her to be his younger sister when in fact his real sister died in an accident with their father long ago and Gwen took her identity. 

- Sketch of a very late scene from the story of Gwen and her horse

- First sketches I’ve done for a basic idea of how I want the four kingdoms to look like.

Obsidian tribe live in by the cliff sides by the volcano and ocean (I’m thinking of landscapes like Iceland). With homes that look like Viking longhouses.  

Axinite Kingdom resides between a large mountain and a plain with huge stone buildings and a palace that has large columns and statues.

Lapis Kingdom has its entrance below a cliff which leads to the under water kingdom that stretches into a cave. 

I didn’t get to draw the Eudialyte kingdom but it looks a lot more like the typical/ideal castle and resides in a plateau environment with lots of canyons.

That’s about it for now TuT

Commissions are still OPEN! Prices have been cut down since I originally made them available.

Ok I think I’ll stop here for tonight TuT

Idk how you digital artist work so fast ahhh!

Here’s some current shots from the piece I’ve been working on of Bilbo fighting the Mirkwood spiders 

-Top picture is how it looks when I’m painting it

-Bottom is the tone I want it to have when I finish it. During the chapter “Flies and Spiders” I always envision the atmosphere to be a very dark blue color (especially when Bilbo goes to save his friends) and even at times mixed with purple.

I’ve been conflicted on how I wanted to portray Bilbo since he’s suppose to be invisible with the ring on but I didn’t want to do some simple light blue outline to show that. I guess I’m just leaving it up to those who know the story to be aware of that TuT I don’t know!

Original sketch and early progress shots can be seen on this post. 

Also COMMISSIONS ARE STILL OPEN and if you didn’t know yet I’ve cut down the prices!

COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN!!! PRICE CUT!

Ok so I’m broke as hell with like 10 dollars to my name and I’ve had commissions opened for a while now with no results. So I’ve decided to cut down my prices even though I really don’t want to, but honestly I would be grateful for any little bit of money right now.

(These are limited to 2 characters/subjects or $10 extra for more)

- Full Color w/ Background: $40

In the last picture is an example that is $50 because there are 3 subjects

- Full Color : $30

- Full Drawing (No backgrounds) : $20

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(These are limited to 3 characters/subjects $10 extra for more)

- Bust Digital Color: $15

- Bust Watercolor: $10

- Sketches w/ watercolor: $10

- Sketches: $5

WHAT I WON’T DO:

-Porn (NOTE: Nudity does NOT equal porn)

- Logos, anything besides what I’m offering. 

Payment:

-PAYPAL ONLY

-Payment up front 

Contact:

- Best way: Message me here on tumblr (I’ll reply either as scorpionhoney or as hertenderribs)

- Email me at scorpionhoneyart@yahoo.com

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I understand if you can’t commission but a reblog would really help ;w; 

Thank you for your time!

More progess on this portrait of Todd Loki I’ve been working on! Originally it was going to be set during day time, but I might make a variant version or the final version as nighttime w/ fireflies like in this WIP shot.

Also…BILBO BAGGINS TO THE RESCUE!

Some progress shots of another WIP I’m working on of Bilbo fighting off the Mirkwood spiders to save his companions!

Nothing makes my day then hobbits bravely killing evil spiders.

Finally got SAI on my mac *u*

now can draw digital pieces agaaiiinn

Work in progress of a portrait of  my character Todd Loki from Fox in the Snow

I decided to draw the scenes when Nycteris and Photogen run away from the story of The Day Boy and the Night Girl by George MacDonald.

The two were raised in two very different environments since they were born. Photogen never knowing darkness is afraid of the dark, and Nycteris has never known light except for a small lamp so daylight scares and burns her. When they run away they take turns leading and taking care of the other. 

So the other night I stayed up till 4am reading this story by George McDonald called: The Day Boy and the Night Girl

Last month I read The Little Prince which I thought at the time was my new favorite story. After reading this story it is now my all time favorite. MacDonald’s writing is so beautiful and I could imagine everything that was happening so clearly in my mind. There were some parts that I thought were going to show typical Victorian views about women but it surprised me with the way Nycteris was written.

The story is about a boy named Photogen and a girl named Nycteris who lives in a witche’s castle. The witch named Watho had lodged the theirs mothers in her castle. Nycteris’s widowed and blind mother Vesper and Photogen’s mother Queen Aurora lived in two different parts of the castle without knowing the other. Vesper lived in the tomb and Aurora lived in a big beautiful room where she could see all the land while her husband was away. When Nycteris was born her mother dies, and when Photogen is born Watho tricks his mother into believing he died at birth so she leaves in grief. The witch then raises the two children in the same rooms that their mothers lived in. Nycteris grows up never knowing light except for a little lamp hung high above her room w/ little education, and Photogen lives knowing only light, is educated and goes hunting with the witch’s huntsmen but must come home before sunset. At some point the two meet and experience the other’s world and develop a romance.

However I loved how they don’t exactly fall for each other at the start. Nycteris is very caring and curious when they meet while Photogen is very ignorant and prideful.

- first picture is based off when they first meet. Photogen has never known darkness so when he sneaks out one night he is becomes deathly afraid of the dark, but luckily for him Nycteris has already snuck out a couple of times before and happens to be out the night he decides to stay out (there is also a hilarious conversation between the two about their genders during this scene. Nycteris has only know the witch n her maid all her life and so she thinks everyone is a girl. Nycteris tries to comfort Photogen by telling him he needs to be a brave girl which he angrily replies to her that he’s man. Nycteris is confused but concludes he is right because girls don’t cry unless necessary.) 

- First sketches I ever did of the two protagonists and their mothers. In the story it says the two shared the same colored eyes as the other’s mother. 

- For Photogen and Nycteris’s clothing I wanted them to be inspired by birds. For Photogen I decided to base his off birds that very flamboyant and also gamebirds since he is a hunter. This one he has a Peacock attire.

- More Photogen outfits. Birds inspiration in order L-R: Greater Sage Grouse, Quail, and Common Pheasant. 

- I am imagined Nycteris as being very dreamy and ghost-like, and she’s described as having very large blue eyes that help her see very clearly in the dark. First three outfits are inspired by Marvellous Spatuletail hummingbird, the second one is also inspired by burrowing owl since Nycteris has lived in a tomb all her life. The last one is inspired by a barn owl and also her facial features. I’m thinking of drawing her like that for now on.

- Aurora and Vesper

Here’s some sketches of my characters Adonis and Belladonna from my short story The Language of Flowers.

- Adonis with his parrots Eros and Apollo

- Drew these while thinking of some scenes for the comic. I’m really determined to finish this comic before working on any of my other main comics like Groaning Cake and Fox in the Snow. I don’t if I’ll be able to finish is this summer but I definitely want to have all the pages drawn. The pages are honestly more of an illustration since they have no panels and I’m going for an illuminate manuscript appearance(and there may or may not be any dialogue or text) so this will probably look more like an illustrated story then a comic haha.

- Adonis and Donna

- Sketch unrelated to LoF but some idea I want to jot down for a drawing after I started having these words play over and over again in my head out of the blue “What do you think you’ll find? What do you think is inside?”

ALSO COMMISSIONS ARE STILL OPEN

Last post for this sketchbook update!

A bunch of drafts for a body of work I want to do that I’m just referring to right now as my Cloud series

FYI: COMMISSIONS ARE STILL OPEN