I really want to keep trying to draw like this. (.his boots looks ridiculous though, and I wish he had his right hand with the palm facing the other way.) But it's a style or a way I've been watingint to draw that I feel like I'm getting closer to achieving. Looking at this drawing, for some reason I keep thinking "I've always wanted to draw like this." It's not perfect, I mean it's difficult to not find flaws in your own drawings, (the trick is just to learn to live with them and try learn from it the next time you draw hehe). My favourite artist has always been John Howe and I've always admired his work and design skills, inspiring me to try to draw things abit more realistic and try to move away from the manga style that I've been influenced by for so long. Let's turn him into this badass hero guard from Gondolin! ☆ wouldn't that be cool?! Maybe that's why I changed my cover photo on facebook to a picture of Gondolin (lol). Somehow I ended up giving him this really elaborate armor.-thing, making him look more like a guard of some mighty city. He doesn't look like a ranger either, or wear similar simple clothes as he had in the game (quite similar to Legolas in Lord of the Rings actually, but simpleeerrr).
He looks more like an elf from Arda than an elf from Heroes 4. When I started drawing I got abit carried away. I've always loved Tolkien, but sometimes my mind is filled with his world more than other times. The past days I've had a severe amplified love for Tolkien. I tried to draw her a second time, but gave up. She's another hero I've crushed on, not a campaign hero though, and I've already drawn her (you can see it here). You might have heard me go all on about this Erica Fade, whoever that might be. Nevertheless, when you get a truely strong hero (especially in H4) I can't help but get attached. I think it's really fun when you get a strong hero in H4, especially because you have the heroes on the battlefield, compared to the other heroes games where they're just some godlike creature that can't take dmg that cast things on the enemies. It's not the first time I crush on a hero in Heroes 4. Give his potrait and goodlook some justice through paper, pencil and pure imagination. However the graphics of Heroes 4 is not the best, and while shamelessly drooling over his amazing elfness, I decided to draw him. I really liked his portrait though and the story was interesting. I curiously dived into one of the campaigns of the Winds of War expansion, where I was introduced to an elf king called Erutan Revol. I spent my few 'days off' after my last exam on Heroes of Might and Magic 4. "Rather than letting myself down now, failing horribly, I believe I can do it better tomorrow." Thus procrastination starts. A curse of the contemporary world, and utterly pure laziness. I believe we all througout our lives encounter the dredfull 'doorstep mile'. Why I didn't put of, for instance 1hour now and then for abit of drawing, really annoys me. I actually barely studied at all until I was back in England. There is no way I could have studied for that entire month anyways. It's been glooming too heavy on my mentality and I felt like I should be reading my materials or study for my exams instead of drawing, which is actually ridiculous. Well main reason has been exams and dissertation. Can't believe I've been absent from the pen for 2 months now. Finally gotten my head back into some drawing.
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