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For @camelidae's Junicorn colour prompt 'Liver Chestnut'.

#junicorn #unicorn #unicorns #i don't usually add manes to my unicorns but the flaxen mane against the dark liver colour of the coat #is what makes a liver chestnut striking #maybe i should have gone with a more horselike tail too? idk #artwoodelf

woodelf68

Junicorn day 3.

lokijiro

Of course I'm not going to hunt you, don't worry!

hernesstepchild

I was so happy with how the background came out! When I was trying to decide what to do with it, for some reason I just felt it should be black, which is very unusual for me. But once I'd coloured the whole thing black, I wondered if I could perhaps give it more depth/texture by adding something else on top. So I coloured over the black with my turquoise pencil and it worked wonderfully, filling up all the little gaps between the pencil strokes and adding a sort of luster to it. In fact, the way it looks a little bit lighter in front of him, maybe he's facing a light source? People with torches? Or the moon just rising over the horizon?

#i thought this was going to be such a boring background and it ended up being one of my favourites #the dark intense colour really sets the whiteness of his coat off

Sailfish!Finarfin reverse mermaid! I changed my mind about saving this for next year because I was so pleased with the background idea I came up with. Sure, he's a few days late for Mermay, but he is the youngest brother; and I already posted Feanor and Fingolfin, we don't want him to feel forgotten, do we?

For @peasant-player

#i really wish i'd thought to add a small emblem of their houses into feanor's and fingolfin's drawings #also feanor and finarfin look related now but fingolfin is a seahorse DON'T QUESTION IT #if anything it should have been finarfin who looked different having taken more after his mother with his gold hair #but i didn't plan on doing all 3 of them when i started and i've read fics where finarfin likes sailing and has a boat so...*shrugs*#reverse mermaid #finarfin #arafinwe #the silmarillion #tolkien art #artwoodelf #in case you're wondering that's the anal fin jutting out down there from his abdomen (yes that's what it's called on a sailfish)#i was just going to do the small emblem behind him but with all the white around him your eye was drawn straight to that fin #in that very awkward place where i worried it might get flagged by tumblr as fish porn or something #and adding all those background colors keeps it from jumping straight out at you #if you prompt this next year i have ideas #i almost hate to suggest it but: a maedhros with one fin kind of mangled because it's got fishing line wrapped around it #not that i would do that to him but i would offer the prompt #peasant-player

seabeck

That's a good rock

hernesstepchild

One last quickie because I didn't have the chance to draw the Curvo and Tyelpe picture that I wanted (need more practice on doing legs that aren't in an upright position), but decided a simple walk down the beach was better than nothing. (Maybe next year?)

Reverse mermaid sea lions!Curufin and Celebrimbor spending some wholesome father-son time together for @peasant-player.

#got the look of love and adoration on tyelpe's face as he looks up at his dad exactly right #and i figured out the right colored pencil combo to get a nice skin tone for the legs #tan underlay first very lightly and then the terracotta on top #it prevents the hint of yellow i was seeing before when i put it over my more beige-y pencil #idk what it's called because it's too short to have the name remaining on the wood

Posting my best first to start off Junicorn. Day 1!

#do not expect that kind of background every day lol #unicorns #junicorn #there will also be non-unicorns mixed in throughout the month

One last quickie because I didn't have the chance to draw the Curvo and Tyelpe picture that I wanted (need more practice on doing legs that aren't in an upright position), but decided a simple walk down the beach was better than nothing. (Maybe next year?)

Reverse mermaid sea lions!Curufin and Celebrimbor spending some wholesome father-son time together for @peasant-player.

#the silmarillion #reverse mermaid #artwoodelf #curufin #celebrimbor #i wanted to do them sitting or lying down on the beach with tyelpe snuggled up against his father but #trying to figure out how to position the legs got me stuck #need to look for reference pics if i ever do it #peasant-player

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Finrod Felagund | Findaráto/Maglor | Makalaurë Characters: Maglor | Makalaurë, Finrod Felagund | Findaráto Additional Tags: Blow Jobs, Bad Poetry, Smol Maglor, feat. best big bro Maedhros Summary:

Four times Tyelkormo picked up Makalaurë and put him in a high place, and one time he put him in Findaráto's bed instead.

#the silmarillion #years of the trees #maglor #finrod #makarato #tolkien fic #mutual pining #sons of feanor #first times #siana #and love shall quench my thirst

hernesstepchild

Orca!Celegorm (Celegorca?) for @peasant-player's reverse mermaid madness and the last day of Mermay. An apex predator who hunts in packs seemed to fit our hunter boy. Fear him.

*Throws sparkly glass into the water to turn into rainbow-coloured sand*

peasant-player

I do like it that his orca upper body is so much bigger

It reminds me of those gym bros that are everyday at the gym but never do a leg day

Albeit

Celegorm seems to do at least alot of squats~

That butt is round 😳

I like the gems too!!

Very creative ✨️

hernesstepchild

My first two attempts at this I was trying to get the upper body to look more in balance with the lower body, and it just didn't look right. Finally I went bigger and just decided he spends most of his time in the water so it doesn't matter if he's a bit top heavy, the water supports that weight. And his upper body SHOULD be bigger than Finrod's dolphin half, because killer whales are bigger animals. And fics are always mentioning Celegorm being really strong and broad-shouldered (because yeah doing archery regularly with a heavy draw weight bow will do that for you), so I decided to go with this version instead of messing about with it anymore.

(And you don't actually have to fear him unless you've stolen something that belongs to his family, he is here to protect you.)

#the silm

Orca!Celegorm (Celegorca?) for @peasant-player's reverse mermaid madness and the last day of Mermay. An apex predator who hunts in packs seemed to fit our hunter boy. Fear him.

*Throws sparkly glass into the water to turn into rainbow-coloured sand*

#it's perfectly normal to have a jar of coloured glass shards on hand right?#i'm such a noldo #i had intentions to get into mosaics at one point #but not all crafts work out #artwoodelf #the silmarillion #reverse mermaid #celegorm #he looks too top heavy i know but when i made the killer whale half smaller so he was more balanced it didn't look right #mermay #peasant-player

alifeinscreencaps

#ros #this still makes me want to start crying #what a scene #kudos to michael praed for ripping our hearts out

hernesstepchild

Dolfinrod

Dolphin!Finrod (Dolphinrod? Dolfinrod?) for @peasant-player's reverse mermaid madness. Other than not being able to wear as much jewelry as he wants, he's pretty happy spending his days racing after the sailboats in the bay and showing off for the sailors. (Like how high he can leap out of the water, get your minds out of the gutter!)

peasant-player

You really having a blast with this little event !!!

Love him and yes he would and should show off hehe

His face is sooooooo adorable omg

hernesstepchild

I did so many practice sketches that first night that I ended up wanting to clean up and use as many as I could!

Dolphins are one of those few animals that I can draw expressively without needing to look at a reference photo; I went from liking dolphins to obsessed with them in my teens after seeing the old Flipper series on TV.

Dolfinrod

Dolphin!Finrod (Dolphinrod? Dolfinrod?) for @peasant-player's reverse mermaid madness. Other than not being able to wear as much jewelry as he wants, he's pretty happy spending his days racing after the sailboats in the bay and showing off for the sailors. (Like how high he can leap out of the water, get your minds out of the gutter!)

#i still don't know what to do about skin tone on legs #for some reason continuing feanor's gray and white torso down into the legs looked good but i didn't like it here #i've gone back and forth between more suntanned to very pale then ended up here in the middle although his legs look paler in person #i think paler blended better with the white on the dolphin more but i had so many layers of color by then some underlying tones came thru #hard to see here but he has a sapphire ankle bracelet though; he'd feel naked without any jewelry on!#finrod #the silmarillion #reverse mermaid #artwoodelf #peasant-player #mermay #dolphinrod #dolfinrod #i mean i had to do a dolphin because the names smooshed together so well #and finrod is a beach boy already thanks to his mom #I WANT to do a fingon but idk how to work his gold ribbons into a fish to make him recognisable

hernesstepchild

Swordfish!Fëanor for @peasant-player's reverse mermaid madness, looking rather stressed.

Why do you think Fëanáro is stressed?

Lifelong belief that he was born marred in some way

Lack of hands severely limits ability to craft

Dislikes having to share his father with his stepmother and half siblings

Just saw Nolofinwë swimming by looking like he might be pregnant again*

Other (please tell us!)

Remaining time: 1 day 3 hours

Bonus Nolo under the cut!

peasant-player

Omg feanor looks SO stressed 😂

Love all the possibilities ✨️

Nolo living his best seahorse life

🌊💕✨️

hernesstepchild

That is literally what swordfishes look like if you look up a photo of them, it's great.

@existingperpetually I figure both Nolo and Glorfindel would be seahorse!boys too, since they both have named, canon horses. I am not implicating that Feanor is not Maglor's father!)

#i sure am getting practice drawing legs lol #rochallor looks like a regular seahorse but around the same size as nolo (they are besties)

Swordfish!Fëanor for @peasant-player's reverse mermaid madness, looking rather stressed.

Why do you think Fëanáro is stressed?

Lifelong belief that he was born marred in some way

Lack of hands severely limits ability to craft

Dislikes having to share his father with his stepmother and half siblings

Just saw Nolofinwë swimming by looking like he might be pregnant again*

Other (please tell us!)

Remaining time: 1 day 3 hours

Bonus Nolo under the cut!

#the silmarillion #feanor #tolkien art #reverse mermaid #peasant-player #mermay #fingolfin #fëanor #fëanaro #nolofinwë #honestly the correct poll answer is probably 'all of the above' but you can't edit polls once posted sadly

hernesstepchild

I can't believe I drew this, but you guys finally made me crack. For the reverse mermaid madness instigated by @peasant-player, may I introduce seahorse!boy Maglor, Lord of the (Underwater) Gap?

*Shuffles aside more cursed designs to work on tomorrow*

peasant-player

I LOVE the shell panties

Beautiful

The style is also super good looking

What a great idea with the sea horse

Would hang up in my bathroom like a tile decoration 😌💕

For some reason I think his little beady black eye looks SO adorable

Spotted even a little crab in the background~ sneaky sneaky

hernesstepchild

I felt that a scallop shell thong lent the appropriate level of absurdity to the picture; can't let the mermaids have them all for bikini tops!

I mean, all that beach -- *gestures* -- of course I was going to add a tiny crab.

#fun fact! seahorse males are the one that carry the children in their belly#sooo this too could be male preg on top of everything 👀#perfectly cursed -- Hm, he looks pretty svelte here, but I'm sure he looks forward to having babies with his beautiful sea wife one day! (Now I want to give him arms so he can hug and carry his little merbabies around with him.)

#i might possibly post another couple of seahorse!boys (nolo and glorfindel) and i did not do it deliberately #but their bellies look much more rounded than maglor here #nolo is a canon dad of course but idk who glorfy knocked up #i need to redraw orca!celegorm (celegorca?) because continuing the black down his legs did not look good #kind of just looked like he was wearing a scuba suit and you couldn't see the muscle definition lines #next up will probably be swordfish!feanor i love him #that was the first fish i thought would be fitting and i wasn't sure who to use but feanor was the first to make swords i think?so...#and someone is getting dolphinised but i haven't decided who yet (fingon maybe?)#arafinwe should be a sailfish #the seahorse works well because the face can look forwards rather than up #the background scenery/colours really did come out looking nice #hopefully none of those seagulls is hungry for crab #i'm sure crablor has some burrows he can scuttle down at need

I can't believe I drew this, but you guys finally made me crack. For the reverse mermaid madness instigated by @peasant-player, may I introduce seahorse!boy Maglor, Lord of the (Underwater) Gap?

*Shuffles aside more cursed designs to work on tomorrow*

AO3 link

#peasant-player #maglor #mermay #crablor #i need a new fine point pen my old one died crablor isn't very sharp #artwoodelf #maglor has coral bead ankle bracelets please tell him he's pretty he likes compliments #the silmarillion #don't even ask how many hours i spent on getting something worth posting #legs are hard man

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