Art by David J. Lopes

Self-taught artist obsessed with the magical, the macabre, and the liminal space between. 🔮✨️💀 Original illustrations created with Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. Open for Commission 📩

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So, in trying to move away from the cesspit that is Instagram/Meta, I've decided to come back to Tumblr... It's been some time since my teenage goth phase when I used to post my drawings, photos, and early experiments with Photoshop on here, but it does indeed feel like coming back to familiar ground! 🖤

I'm a portuguese, self-taught, digital artist obsessed with the magical, the macabre, and the liminal space between. 🔮✨️💀

All of my work is created by human hands on Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. 🖊🖥🎨

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. The Witch-King of Angmar .

"Come not between the Nazgûl and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shriveled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye."

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. The Treason of Isengard .

"Once he was as great as his fame made him. His knowledge was deep, his thought was subtle, and his hands marvellously skilled; and he had a power over the minds of others. The wise he could persuade, and the smaller folk he could daunt. That power he certainly still keeps. There are not many in Middle-earth that I should say were safe, if they were left alone to talk with him..."

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. Alatar and Pallando .

"I think that they went as emissaries to distant regions, east and south... Missionaries to enemy occupied lands as it were. What success they had I do not know; but I fear that they failed, as Saruman did, though doubtless in different ways; and I suspect they were founders or beginners of secret cults and 'magic' traditions that outlasted the fall of Sauron."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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. Legolas of the Woodland Realm .

"To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West, west away, the round sun is falling, Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling, The voices of my people that have gone before me? I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me; For our days are ending and our years failing. I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing. Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling, Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling, In Eressea, in Elvenhome that no man can discover, Where the leaves fall not: land of my people forever!"

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. Durin's Bane .

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. The Mirror of Galadriel .

"Many things I can command the Mirror to reveal, and to some I can show what they desire to see. But the Mirror will also show things unbidden, and those are often stranger and more profitable than things which we wish to behold. What you will see, if you leave the Mirror free to work, I cannot tell. For it shows things that were, and things that are, and things that yet may be."

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. Mithrandir .

"I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo.

'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

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Sketch - Final Render

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. The Witch-King of Angmar .

"Come not between the Nazgûl and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shriveled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye."

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Sketch - Final Render

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. Alatar and Pallando .

"I think that they went as emissaries to distant regions, east and south... Missionaries to enemy occupied lands as it were. What success they had I do not know; but I fear that they failed, as Saruman did, though doubtless in different ways; and I suspect they were founders or beginners of secret cults and 'magic' traditions that outlasted the fall of Sauron."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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Sketch - Final Render

[artbydavidjlopes]

. Legolas of the Woodland Realm .

"To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West, west away, the round sun is falling, Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling, The voices of my people that have gone before me? I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me; For our days are ending and our years failing. I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing. Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling, Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling, In Eressea, in Elvenhome that no man can discover, Where the leaves fall not: land of my people forever!"

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. Durin's Bane .

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. The Treason of Isengard .

"Once he was as great as his fame made him. His knowledge was deep, his thought was subtle, and his hands marvellously skilled; and he had a power over the minds of others. The wise he could persuade, and the smaller folk he could daunt. That power he certainly still keeps. There are not many in Middle-earth that I should say were safe, if they were left alone to talk with him..."

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. Durin's Bane .