Large project (2014-?) : The Hobbit - 1/16 Balin

"Instead there was a very old-looking dwarf on the step

with a white beard and a scarlet hood;

and he too hopped inside as soon as the door was open,

just as if he had been invited."

Balin sans the details. (I plan on outlining the different colors with black thread, and maybe a bit of silver or gold for the belt.)

If you remember this post, the dwarves in the original art are not very sexy differents one from the other. The author respected the colors of their hoods though, and kept them in the same order they arrive at Bilbo's.

As I'm a big fangirl SCREW IT I'M A BIG FANGIRL I decided to mix the book and the movie : I will keep the original hoods, but they will have the faces of the movie. So I spent a good thirty minutes studying the skull and the beard of Balin, and I'm quite satisfied.

You can see that I moved them back a rank, too, in order to have Thorin at the head of the company.

The ponies... the ponies are UGLY. Their legs are too short ! And they have no manes ! I will draw one with black thread, too.


 And I was watching...

BLACK SAILS. Pirates ! Yay ! Toby Stephens, oooooooh ! (CAUTION : bad puns coming aboard.) I didn't really like him in Jane Eyre, but Captain Flint can board my ship when he wants.

Come and loot me baby.

Yeah Billy, you can too.

Actually, they must have been terrible times in terrible places. (Especially for women.) But there is something about pirates... The freedom (to die horrible deaths) I suppose. The sun, the sea and those tigh pants maybe.

*updated 04/07/2014*
A nice lady wrote an article which describes exactly my reactions when I was watching the first episode : Black Sails: Pirates were a real thing
I laughed. I laughed all alone in my appartment like the crazy fangirl I am.

Quotes :
"Ship chases are super anti-climactic."
(About Flint :) "And he looks just like a ginger bearded Ser Jorah..."
 "Smart, resourceful, powerful women with *shock* THEIR OWN PLOT LINES but like also twisty connections to other plot points that aren’t one note or strictly about the men in the show. It’s kind of revolutionary."