It is the gold. They are drawn to treasure like flies to dead flesh.
Elrond the Herald. Inspired by this post! Which I think someone had reblogged with a tag saying they could see Elrond wearing it. (IF THAT WAS YOU WHO REBLOGGED IT PLEASE HIT ME UP WITH THE LINK TO YOUR POST PLEASE! SO I CAN GIVE YOU CREDIT!)
Anyhow, Elrond when he was herald for Gil-galad! Man, those second age fashions sure were something, huh?
Painting is so hard, especially without line art! I used Photoshop and a couple of Kyle’s brushes: Oil detail brush 30px and the Oil lush brushes mostly. My second digital painting of 2018 and, really, ever. XD The only reference I used was the headless mannequin and puzzling over photos of Elrond’s head. There’s no way I could paint Hugh’s face accurately so I tried to just use some of the more defining features and hand-wave the rest.
If you have any good painting tutorials please send them my way!
Bonus gif under the cut!
