My older son underwent a minor surgery and had to stay at home for a few days. As a motherly instinct, I felt need to over-coddle him. So one of the presents I gave him is this drawing of Thorin Oakenshield, printed on a t-shirt.
On the making of this drawing:
1) I studied a screen capture from The Hobbit AUJ for gesture reference. I couldn't find the exact pose that I wanted to draw, so I used my new knowledge from illustration classes to draw a gesture from a different angle.
2) I battled with coloring the thing (...), and decided to lasso every part and paint bucket it, adding highlight and shadow later on a different layer.
3) The background picture for the text is actually a painting of the Lonely Mountain I made a few months ago. I didn't want to use any copyrighted material.
