May 14
The amazing Khullain Paints commissioned a painting of his wife's Elf character, so we had a "commission swap." I am gobsmacked by his pixel-art portrait of Anarlossë (and Gwathig!). Seriously, I think he said there's something like 28 animals hidden in here, like a "Where's Wally?" book. There's a bull finch and a squirrel and two butterflies and a bumblebee -- how did he make a pixel bumblebee!? -- and the white birds over the lake ^_^ I said they're so pretty, he said they were startled into flight by a hawk. I said ooh that's a good explanation, but no. Dude actually put in a five-pixel hawk.
He's not on Tumblr but he's on twitter (which I'm not ^^), so check him out!