Happy Birthdays and Bingo Studies #2!!!

[lavendertook]

Happy birthday to catw and illuminating_dragon, and happy belated birthday to the Baggins grrls, gini_baggins and aina_baggins. Hope they were great days filled with cake and hobbits, and here's a hobbit for ya'll I drew this weekend:



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Comments

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

Another wonderful drawing. I love the shading and the detail on the broach.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Thank you, dear! (-: *hugs*

[catw.livejournal.com]

Thank you, lavendertook!
This is a beautiful Frodo drawing. Thank you!

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

You're welcome, Cat! Hope you had a lovely birthday by your own little pond. (-:

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Look at that big eyed hobbit! Eee!

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

:-D <3

[lovethosehobbit.livejournal.com]

You caught his eyes perfectly! Any news about our little Moot? I know, I'm pushy but I *need* this so badly. I heard you were working on the theatre showing LOTR's for our group (which I think is the best idea ever). Let me know, ok?

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm going to keep doing caps of him until I get the trick of his mouth and nose down in this medium before I'll expand out.

Nothing--they emailed me back to ask what LotR was, so I spelled it out and I haven't heard back. So I don't know--it may take a while to connect, and I'm not sure if they'd agree to it. So I definitely won't have anything organized for the summer. If I do get a hold of them, I'd bet there are restrictions on showing the LotR EE's this summer because it would interfere with or be too close to the big showing New Line arranged in selected theater's in June. So go ahead and make other plans for the summer. It would be nice if we could schedule something here in October when the trees at the lake are at their autumn prettiest since there will be nothing going on in NYC then this year.

If the theater falls through, I could also see if the Marriott has a lounge or suite with a wide screen TV we could reserve, or if we can reserve a nice lounge area there, if we could bring in a rented widescreen. Would that be a good possibility?

Ed. I'm checking out the Marriott and they have this one suite that has a 64" flatscreen (the others all have 32" screens) but it seems to be booked up a lot of weekends--how would that be if we could get it?

[lovethosehobbit.livejournal.com]

That sounds fantastic. I say go for it! I don't care what we do as long as we have a group to do it with.

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

That's really so good. I love his expression.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm going to keep on working the caps of him until I get the trick of doing his mouth and nose right.

[frolijah-fan-54.livejournal.com]

OMG, LT - I didn't know what an incredible artist you are!! You've got the expression perfectly - gorgeous!!

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much, M! (-: *hugs* And that's close to the same cap in your icon. As I mentioned to others above, I'm going to keep to just doing caps of him until I figure out the trick of doing his nose and mouth right in ballpoint lines.

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

Another face full of ... not sorrow, but something akin -- regret? remorse? Whatever he's thinking of, it seems he is wishing it had turned out differently. Well-done, Lavender.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

He's thinking, "Doesn't anybody want to buy a used ring?" (-;

No, you're right--he's regretting the life he's leaving behind due to his best resolve, but against his dearest wishes. He's verklempt with overwhelmed gratitude and resolved dread, because he understands the story he is walking into in accepting Galadriel's gift of the phial of Earendil's light and, despite the size of hobbit feet and their lack of being accustomed to shoes, those shoes he's stepping into feel soooo overwhelmingly big, and he'd really rather being going anywhere else.

Thank you, Mechtild. I think Frolijah is at his most beautiful in this scene. I'll keep sticking to caps until I get his nose and mouth down.

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

You've captured a sense of those feelings, quite an accomplishment!