The lyf so short

Sooo it has been brought to my attention that I should have posted this here as well as on the Tumblesite, which I should have realised by myself but didn't. Since I am reasonably pleased with this one for a change, I'll gladly use this chance to repeat my ramble. Better late than never, I guess.

Because this time, I can actually do a walkthrough of the Artistic Process (TM)! Usually, I paint in A4 and only do one scan of the lineart and one scan of the finished thing because I am teh lazy. This time I painted on A3 paper to have enough space for everything, which meant I couldn’t scan it at all. But I was so terrified of messing the whole epic thing up that I took photos of it after every major step. (How I would have gotten these grainy shots back onto A3 paper in order to try again is a puzzle I would have tried to solve if I’d had to. Fortunately, I didn’t.)

So I shall ramble you through How Lyra Paints Stuff... now.

( Click if you dare! )

As I noted last week, the published Silmarillion celebrates its 30th birthday on September 15th, that is, in exactly one week.

Now one week is a very short time to get any kind of party started, but the date is fixed, so we can't help it. To make things easier we can make the party last a week so next Saturday is only the beginning, though.

Somehow people have been asking me (why me?) just what to do, and my answer still is:

EVERYTHING. Whatever the heck you can think of that suits the occasion.

Now of course I realise that a proper challenge and/or project has to be worded differently, so I'll try to come up with something official-looking:

( Behind the cut so as not to bore the non-Silm-readers on my flist. )
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Lalala, back to paper-writing; the beast has to be in Cambridge by the 14th. >_>