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Ladies and gentlemen... I've got three little words for you:
It   Is   Finished

Finally!!!

Finished, finito, done, completed, avslutat and klart...

When I began the project in late August I suspected it would take time, given the size of the paper and all, though I would never have thought it would take me mine months. Nine months! Nine!

There was a tough start already in the beginning, spending about 45 hours just for sketching and defining the motif (which is a lot just that). Then I sort of hit the wall in late October in a combination of getting a wee bit tired of the project and issues at work that put me off art for a while. The following three months my winter depression hindered me from continue working with any joy, plus the fact that my leg injury hindered me to sit comfortably for longer periods than 20-30 min at the time (and still does), so it wasn't until late February I gave it another try. That was three months ago! About another 100 hours later on I can finally say that I'm finished on this piece.

It's not perfect, it never is. But it's as close to good that I can get at the moment.

I'm not going to upload it today (Sunday evening). It's getting a little late for that. Just you hang on until tomorrow and you'll see the result. :)

Thank you for waiting.
  • Mood: Relief
  • Eating: Cheese doodles!
  • Drinking: tea!

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Louise Lindgren
Artist | Traditional Art
Sweden
I'm a vertically challenged oddball from the (seasonally) frozen North with a slightly mad passion for art...

To create is to live and I live to create, entertaining myself and hopefully a few of you as well. :XD:

Contact? Questions? e-mail: lindgrenlouise@hotmail.com
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Mood: Wow! ~superxicyumi 1 day ago  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
you are very very very very talented!!
keep your amazing work :D
a comment like a simple person like me doesn't mean a lot but I think when somebody do something really good, people must recognize it!
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~Loulin 1 day ago   Traditional Artist
I does mean something, I appreciate every people saying hello.
I'm glad you swung by. :)
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~DeepWoodian May 11, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
By the way... have you acquired and/or watched "The Hobbit" yet? And if so what do you think about it?

I bought it myself recently and now after I have watched it twice (ones in cinema and ones in home) my personal opinion is still somewhat same as I described below.
When watched on TV the special effects and visual appearance do loose quite much of their effectiveness but on the other hand I did have more tolerance towards the "not so good" parts than at the first watch. :XD:
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~Loulin May 11, 2013   Traditional Artist
Yes, I bought "The Hobbit".

And while there are indeed certain parts and characters I don't quite like, on the whole I actually liked it much more than I thought I would. I think I was a bit prejudiced on the whole thing, which was a bit unfair. And I've realised now it's quite a long wait until we get to see the resolve of the whole thing. (Who am I kidding - I'm a master of patience ;P )

One thing, amongst many, that I do quite like however is the high level of details (which is quite typically me :XD: ). You can watch it through many times and still pick up new gorgeous details you didn't see before.
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~DeepWoodian May 12, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Good to hear that it was worth of the money spent.

All Jackson's Middle-Earth movies are full of details and Hobbit is no means an exception.

One thing about the visuals. In LOTR trilogy the wargs were quite odd looking (more like hyenas than wolfs) and those were not by any means my favorites but the "new" wargs in the Hobbit -movie don't please my eye either. Somehow they look much more "unrealistic", or if I put it other way they look quite "stiff" and "artificial" to me. (Well, they ARE artificial but you get the picture... :XD:)
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~Loulin May 13, 2013   Traditional Artist
I agree with you.

Though the quality of digital design has approved over the ten years or so (what a difference betwen Gollum 2003 and 2013! :o ) I'm not particularly fond of the visual design of the new wargs either. I kind of prefered the more hyena-type look, even if the animation looked a little dodgy at times. Not that the wargs were my favourites either but since we are on the topic. :XD:
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~DeepWoodian Mar 14, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Now about the first Hobbit -movie or "Bilbo" as we spoke earlier...

Is it worth to watch? If you are a Tolkien fan then I would say that yes it is but it's not as good or "amazing" as the LOTR -trilogy movies were. Many have praised the Hobbit -movie to the heavens but to me it was more like a decent start to the Hobbit trilogy but still a bit of a disappoinment. There were many good scenes but also some "stupid" or pointless scenes which made me wonder why those were added to the film or why the originally good script/plot was changed.

I'll try to list some of points about the movie without spoiling it to you.

Positive:
- Visual appearance of the film is great looking like in the earlier films.
- Actor playing the main role really captures the essence of Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman). Other main actors are good too.
- The flahsback scene of the destruction of the dwarven kingdom is really well done. One of the best action scenes in the film actually.
- The "slow" tempo of the beginning of the movie. Many have criticized it but I liked it.
- The meeting of Bilbo and Gollum is well made.


Negative:
- Many details of the background history of the whole book was somewhat changed and not to the better in my opinion.
- Some really pointless "let's mix bloody fighting with funny behavior" -scenes.
- Overal too much "fumbling" action added which was not in the book.
- Some dwarf characters (or more like they appearance) was not like my image of Tolkien dwarves is.
- One side character was totally ruined by making him to be a Middle Earth version of a hippie.

These are of course only matters of an individual taste but I would rate the movie about 3/5.

Hope this helps. :)
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~Loulin Mar 15, 2013   Traditional Artist
I surmised the technical quality would at least match if not surpass the ring trilogy ten years after its making. ;)

The thing I was a bit worried about though, after seeing a couple of trailers, was that it seemed a bit too "comical". Like you said: pointless funny-behaviour scenes... I don't have the typical american fall-on-your-ass-kind of humour. I know this is not entirely the case - it's not that kind of movie but still...

Changes between book and movie-version will always excist whether we like them or not so there's no getting around them. I never read "The hobbit" when I was a kid so I won't know the difference anyway. :shrug:

I don't know yet if it helps. Still thinking about it. I am very curious, I am, but I'm not as excited as for LotR (I waited very patiently for three years for the special extended version DVD-box).

And kudos to you for not spoiling it for me. :)
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~DeepWoodian Mar 18, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Well, the Hobbit book is lighter, more comical and dedicated more to younger children than LOTR and the book does contain many funny moments and conversations. Some of these moments can be found in the movie but like I said there is also far too much those moments where they have added and mixed pointless "humour" to fighting and action scenes.

Yes, I know that every director wants to add his own "hand mark" to the movies which are based on books and I don't have anything against that generally. It's just that these added scenes and plot changes are often far worse than the original story.

I don't know are you aware that there was going to be only two movies in Hobbit "trilogy" first but then they changed it to three movies. The Hobbit book is only some 300 pages long. Me and my cousin (who is also a Tolkien fan) feared that this meant that every sentence of the book would be added to the movies. And for the first movie this was quite much the case. Other parts will contain even more those "added" scenes as there will be shown events which were only hinted in the Hobbit and other Tolkien books and which happened at the same time when Bilbo and dwarves made their journey.

I would still say that it is worth to watch. After all there isn't too much Tolkien and Middle Earth movies around.
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~Loulin Mar 19, 2013   Traditional Artist
Well... As they say: nothing ventured - nothing gained. Maybe it's worth my money after all. At the very least, once I've seen it, it'll be another nice movie to catergorize as 'work-films' (Often while drawing, and if I don't want to listen to music, I put on a film instead, not to watch but to listen to while working. Strange but true.)
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