Niamh and the Hermit - Pictures

The Illustrations of Ydulhain, from

Ydulhain

The Lord of the Waterfalls
appeared quite fully in my mind early on. He is a forceful personality, full of storms and lowered brows, his beard running into the foaming river, his face never quite the same.

To illustrate him, I simply sketched him as though I had done so a thousand times before. That left only the necessity of scanning him onto disc and "stamping" him.

Actually, just like with Elowen, I found that greyscaling the picture and then using the brightness/contrast tool worked best to "stamp." In this case, the original sketch had enough contrast that I did not need to select individual parts. I then blacked the background and added the border to make it resemble the rest of the illustrations.

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Other incarnations
still exist of Ydulhain. The first one (1) is the original sketch in greyscale pencil. I prefer it to the b/w simply because shading always makes a thing look a bit more round. The second (2) is just a bit of fun I had one day, based off a picture of an actual waterfall, as well as some trees I had a picture of and - see that poor attempt at a girl down there? That's based off me and is hideous, but as I said, it's all a bit of fun. After compiling/manipulating/smudging/recoloring the picture, I used the cutout function on Adobe Photoshop Elements.

Elowen

Urdur

Ydulhain

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