Tag: just thinking aloud

// I’m thinking about doing a comprehensive revision of my Tolkien character designs. I’ve kept a lot of my first concept ideas and drawing conceits from my earliest drafts of wesleycanon that, at this point, don’t make sense or just aren’t particularly polished. The “horns” on Aulë’s Maiar for instance– why horns?Mostly just because that’s how I first drew them, and I haven’t tried anything else. I still want to have a way to distinguish the Maiar of different Valar, but why not crystal structures, or something more thematic of earth and forges? That’s just one example of old design stuff that I’ve kept around out of laziness; I think I can do better now. Sitting down and really thinking about character design and readability would be a great exercise.