gandalf's big naturals

pheeb / 27 (she/her). elladan and elrohir enthusiast, mostly Tolkien here

[creature-adjacent]

Carnivorous plants doin this is so funny to me

They don't wanna eat their pollinators :(

[questionablepastries]

[fairycosmos]

does it ever get better? has it gotten better? will it get better? when will it get better?

[fairycosmos]

[autistook]

spotted myself in lotr

[paisleyavenger-deactivated20150]

Visit Original Link

[passion-of-l0vers]

caramel frappe give me the strength to clean my room

[passion-of-l0vers]

caramel frappe PLEASE

[passion-of-l0vers]

#this art is so evocative. it feels like a goya painting 

thank you so much this is the highest compliment

[tintheelvenking]

OP did a lovely job with this piece. The pose they picked is a difficult one to do correctly and dynamically- the doubling over is hard to illustrate without making it look weird or poorly drawn, the low seat of the “pelvis” making the figure dip down lower (to emphasize the clutching motion of the hands) is a hard perspective to imagine without a reference. I liked the way OP chose to draw the shoulders, evoking both the hunching of shoulders that would be present in a fleshier painting and drawing out the strong, dynamic curve of the body.

The blood, the desperate clutch, the crying and the pose all suggest something religious, making the post all the more impactful with its drawing- The caramel frappe does not answer the subject, just as God does not answer the subjects of paintings who depicted the same theme.

It’s also intriguing where OP chose to put details. In amostly minimalist creation, the (relatively) detailed frappe, hands, and face guides your eyes in a a dynamic way- from the frappe to the face, then follows the line of the body out to the end of the legs- making the art more interesting to the eye.

I have a theory about the colors that I’m not sure is true, but I think the subject being black and white separates it from the frappe, which is fully colored. The blood, neither frappe nor person colored, acts as a connector between the two– the only ways the two subjects can connect are through touch and sight, both of which causes the human subject pain. Then again, I may be reading into things too much idk

[passion-of-l0vers]

okay this is my favorite comment on this entire post

[pansyfemme]

close your eyes and imagine freshly roasted root vegetables perfectly seasoned and crispy as far as the eye can see

[nighttimepatrons]

Sam trying to get Frodo to take one more step

[nighttimepatrons]

Sam psychologically tormenting Gollum

[mymotorcyclediaries]

Love women who love the brine of life...Pickles, Olives, pickled jalapeños, sun-dried tomatoes, pickled ginger, pepperoncini, kimchi, pickled red onions

[sztupy]

[nadoripeter]

Ez megoldódott.

[nonlynear]

what even is the theme for this year’s met

[nonlynear]

Perfectly nonsensical. I hope someone goes balls swangin

[mini-wrants]

[hotvampireadjacent]

[waspsinyouryard]

admittedly i know little of the subject but one would think, at 45 years of age, he would be a ryan goose by now

[chongoblog]

hey just so you know, op of that post you reblogged let the dogs out :/

[supergameboytwo]

who?

[alternativeulster]

who?

[dragongirltongue]

who?

[acreaturecalledgreed]

who?

[kosmogrl]

[konoko]

[pangur-and-grim]

cats will just treat you as terrain

[thelordsoftherings]

Not all those who wander are lost

[entnoot]

Éowyn, disguised as Dernhelm, among the Riders of Rohan ⚔️

Based on Eugéne Grasset’s “Jeanne chevauchant au milieu des hommes d’armes” (1894)