sakasakiii

[sakasakiii]

hi!!! how long does an average panel of one of your comics take??

i love your work so much!! it got me into silmblr hehe

HI NONNIE!!! thank u sooooso much for checking in and for ur lovely ask! it means a lot to hear that my silly ol scribbles were what introduced u to the glorious landscape that is the tolkien fandom! on tumblr no less!! i hope you stay a real long time, and have a blast while you're at it 💖💖

now onto your question! that's some good food for thought uhhhh i can try to estimate?? its been a while but i shld have some rough ideas abt each that i can share! the time frame each comic/panel takes is highly dependent on WHAT kind of comic it is. i hv two kinds of comics I usually do: 1) full-length, and 2) goofy/4koma.

i have a few full-length comics laying about in my archive, but my most recent one/best example is Ghosts which was around uh.... 7 pages excluding the bonus panels! in terms of the process, i usually divide it into 5 stages:

Drafting: this is either the fastest stage OR the slowest depending entirely whether i know what im doing LMAO,, if i have a set idea for what i want to happen, i might get drafts done in a few hours, but if i flounder, it can take a few days 🤔

Lineart: relatively simple enough once i hv the draft down, so id say anything ranging from an hour to half a day if theres nothing else going on irl

Block colouring (main actors): there are DEFINITELY easier and more professional ways to do this with mass-selection and the lasso fill/bucket tool, but idk how to do that on SAI (my art program) so i colour everything by hand HAHA which makes the process longer.... half a day to a day?

Shading: THE WORST!!! definintely my least favourite bc i find it tedious due to all the details/prettification of elves that i am legally obliged to pour into this stage 😭😭 as a result, it can take days!!!

Background + Lighting + Final Rendering: similar to the previous stage haha it just depends on how much effort i wanna put into the final product looking nice. roughly a few days? it kind of meshes with stage 4 anyways haha

just for fun, i hope this process gif for page 6 can illustrate that 👇

these are just rough estimates, bc all in all, the time it takes so finish a page is really dependent on how free I am hahaha. Also, I usually work on full-length comics like Ghost which have more than one page all at once, which means I drafted all 7 pages at once, then did the lineart for all 7 pages at once, coloured at once, shaded rendered bla bla bla 😚 iirc, i think it took me 11 days in total to finish Ghosts before the end of June last year!

For goofy/4-koma, its usually just one page with less detailed/more cartoonish/chibi character styles so it takes a day or two days at most! again, it all boils down to how free i am hehe

YEAH SORRY THIS ENDED UP BEING AN INFO DUMP but thank you so much again for asking and letting me ramble! <3 i ended up having a lot of fun looking back on my drafts n thinking back on my processes.... theres defininitely room for improvement, but thats another worry for another day heheh 😎

#rin replies #anon asks #silmarillion #yeah sorry again this turned into a yap fest 💃💃 #i never knew all those wips wld come in handy but maybe its a good thing i like sending myself things hehe #cannot reiterate enough how much i HATE colouring :(((( #thank you again for ur kind message nonnie <33 #silm #silm comic #wip #behind the scenes stuff

[sakasakiii]

a while ago in june of last year i posted this sketch dump and received a very wonderful ask from @mochamai wherein the mysterious ghost hand to the left of maedhros was brought to attention..... i hv seized this opportunity to do these very self indulgent doodles of Melkor who (loathe as i am to admit it) is the individual that hand belongs to 😭😭

HEAR ME OUT OK. it was just supposed to be a random hand right. i had drawn it with normal nails and everything!!! BUT THEN. then. i was on pinterest browsing character design inspiration and i found the infamous stained dark claw hand (if you know you know) and i realised it was my one chance to actually incorporate it into my silm designs... then i considered who would fit it and all i could think of was post-silmaril morgoth.... and here we are :((((

anyways ive been kinda busy these past two months BUT i used this chance to squeeze in some anatomy practice so errrrr dont ask me why he's shirtless in most of these..... i will only speak in the presence of my attorney........

thank you again for taking the time to ask though!!!!! ❤️❤️ i really really do like your original interpretation of the hand (i'll post the original picture below if anyone is curious) belonging to Maedhros in Mandos-- especially since it kinda matches up lorewise doesnt it....!!! it means a lot that youd take the time to look at it in such detail waaaaa <3333 maybe some new mae doodles are in order to make up for it 😚😚 soon!!!

^ the aforementioned hand dun dun dunnnn

#rin replies #mochamai #melkor #silmarillion #maedhros #morgoth #the silmarillion fanart #i really do like claw hands........ #im redesigning the valar so i suppose this was inevitable #i miss maedhros :(((( #mairon #sauron #thuringwethil #gothmog #i think the anggang deserve a little girls night pampering out once in a while #you cant be slaying elves if you arent being slay yourself 😤 #angband #the silmarillion #silm #elves #sketch dump #sakasakart #silm art

[sakasakiii]

ive had vague concepts for the lords for gondolin floating around my noggin since late 2021, but never really sat down to get em drawn... so during my hiatus i figured i should stop sitting on it after 2917382 years 😴 tho mostly i just wanted to do another relationship chart bc the first three i made in june were! so!! fun!!!

let me know if the text is too hard to read... hopefully it wont be on desktop but ill see what i can do if need be 👍

i had a lot of fun with these batch of concepts so below is an extra comic and a sketch page:

extra 2: just some bonus rough sketches of the lords' possible dynamics w/ others prior to the darkening?? i write fanfiction in my head 25 hours a day bc i forgot how to do so with actual stories HAHAHA

#silmarillion #maeglin #turgon #glorfindel #gondolin #ive tried to follow as much of the info on tolkien gateway as possible. but i didnt wanna design armour JUST yet HAHAH #i hope you wont mind the creative liberties hehe.... i also changed rogs design a lil.... his old hairstyle was bugging me #in terms of ages only penlod and egalmoth are older than turgon :DDD ecthelion is the youngest barring maeglin and idril! #and ofc it isnt a sketch dump if i dont find some obscure way to sneak maedhros into it 😗😗 #idril #penlod #rog #egalmoth #galdor #ecthelion #duilin #salgant #curufin #aredhel #galadriel #argon #fingolfin #lords of gondolin #maedhros #noldor #silm #the silmarillion #the silmarillion fanart #silm art #elves

[sakasakiii]

Hi!

I just wanted to say that I love your art very much. It is so pretty. It motivates me to keep on drawing.

Also- are you okay? How are you?

HELLO NONNIE!!! sorry for taking SO long to reply to this, but thank you sm for ur concern and for taking the time to send such a kind message 🥺 I'm doing fine! like i explained in my comeback post a few days ago, i've just been really busy hahahah.... which has been somewhat of a pattern in 2022-23? man. idk how i managed to do 2 posts a week regularly for all of 2021 but take me back to those peaceful days huhuhu 🥴 all in all, i'm alright dw!!

im absolutely honoured to hear that you've been inspired by my art!! it's very humbling to know u've taken the time to get such meaningful things out of the.... whatever it is ive been making HAAHAHA 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️ THANK YOUUU and i hope you keep creating!! nothing would make me happier than to see you continue pursuing ur art and i hope to see it one day for myself 🤞 HOHOOO??

i received a few more check-in asks from some other nonnies, so i'll follow up with them here ❤️ thank you to everyone who sent in things!! ur all too nice aughhh

ill throw in a lil post-angband sketch w/ amras n mae, bc i was in a mood to draw some cosy comfort things 🤗 (surviving) redheads gotta stick together !!

#rin replies #silmarillion #maedhros #amras #the silmarillion fanart #nonnies u are all TOO GOOD FOR THIS WORLD #sorry again if i worried anyone and for the radio silence #i come crawling back with my tail between my legs :triumph: #hiatus was... hiatusy. but i squeezed in time for self care with genshin impact??? #which is in fact the opposite of self care but. life is too stressful for regrets!!! #anyways.... i hv some gondolin designs thatve been worked on so im excited to get sketching hehehe #i also have achieved Clarity and now have 1000x more appreciation for potential post-kinslaying amras and maedhros.... #this is before amras hits his growth spurt/when hes still Babby #feanorians #silmart #sakasakart #the silmarillion #post-angband

[sakasakiii]

Maglor with that silly overly ornamented videogame armor (Curufin made it as a gag gift)

#THIS IS SICK #drags me back to my fire emblem days #armor aesthetics > practicality hehehe #ops maglor is always breathtaking whenever i see him #also the thought of curufin making gag gifts is SENDING me #silmarillion #maglor

[sakasakiii]

Bitsies of sketchies hope you can read my handwriting hehe

#THE NEED FOR KINSLAYING IS SEEPING IN HIS HEART #this is poetry in motion op #average feanor interaction #glorfy is so cute 🥺 #celebrian my quen..... shes so pretty <333 #silmarillion #glorfindel #feanor #maglor #celebrian

[sakasakiii]

some firstborn sons to start the new year two weeks after it began ✨

apologies for disappearing again,, this makes it the 4th? 5th time i've disappeared?? WILD. things have been busybusybusy but i've gotten some prior things all settled so hopefully i can get back into drawing and checking out things.... and answering asks!!!!!

obligatory extra as per tradition bc i always forget about the secondborns who arent maglor (im looking at YOU, orodreth's dad):

#silmarillion #maedhros #fingon #finrod #silm art #angrod and turgon are disgusted but maglors old and flamboyant enough to find this hilarious #painting isnt really my style hehe ill probably go back to comics and sketch pages after this #finrods fit is too ornate.... can u tell i started weeping midway #maglor #turgon #angrod #sons of feanor #the silmarillion #the silmarillion fanart #noldor #silmart #sakasakart #silm #lotr elves #elves #firstborn gang #sorry again for not responding to asks 🙇🙇 i logged in recently and was blown away by everyone checking in nsfjfHF THANK YOU;;;??!!;;; #im going to try responding to as many as i can in this period - though i dont know if itd bother ppl if my posts suddenly started coming in #large batches..... im still going to try to draw something per ask cause it feels weird if i dont hahahaha #2024 is time to be productive...... yes!!!

[sakasakiii]

Day 7 Freeform for @tolkiengenweek: Luthien finding Daeron after the events of 'Of Beren and Luthien' !

(and yes that is in fact Elured and Elurin, yes i realized they should absolutely not be in the same time period as baby Dior, yes i accidentally smashed 2 ideas together in my brain and i didn't realize this until i was half done)

Inspired by a conversation I had with @sakasakiii about Luthien going back for daeron (since apparently the doriathrim didn't want him, or at least not enough to mount a thingol-scale rescue party).

Also partially inspired by another part of the same conversation in which Rin brought up the idea of Daeron going to rescue elured and eluril. Anyways after the accidental timeline-mashing, I decided that well, the forest around menegroth is full of enough weird maia magic to explain elured & elurin time traveling directly into luthien, beren, and daeron's house decades before they were supposed to be born- after all, occasional time travel to weird magic places is Lost Road canon right?

#I LOVE #yesss ur daeron content is top notch!! #first off i gotta say i love the colours used for luthien and daerons hair #the purplish blue is so pretty to the eye <33 #and he looks so happy your honour.... when was the last time ANYONE saw daeron happy....!!! #lil cozy domestic scenarios with the gang are all one needs for a good day really #also yes SO TRUE the fact that the doriathrim just effectively let daeron peace out and leave him be gets me in all the worst ways LMAO #responsible big sis luthien going hollup.... something aint right #honestly when i saw the email notif i just woke up and i had what i thought was a rly great explanation for the accidental timeline mashing #but then i went back to sleep and now i cant for the life of me remember what it was !!!!!! #i like ops best tho hehe maia magic is prob rly eldritch so lets not question it #or alternatively daeron yeets himself to an alternate universe after pulling a luthien with mandos when bartering for his grandnephews #shenanigans ensue.... #silmarillion #luthien #daeron #elured #elurin #dior #other people’s amazing art <3

[sakasakiii]

OH??? EH???? HUH HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS EARLIER WAAAA HE LOOKS SOSOSO GOOD??!! 💓🥺🥺🥺💓💓 oh myg dkfsdknj the lighting the scars the bgggg down to his dishevelled hair and hsi golden eyes,,, you got everything so perfect!!!! i am in LOVE with your colouring style and art style pleeasseeee i am beyond myself rn 😭😭😭

im sorry i didnt see this earlier but ahhh thank you so much!!!! this is the sweetest thing ive ever gotten and im def saving this for... wallpaper purposes... hohoh.... 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️ im so honoured you took the time to do this--- thank you a million times again!!

I really love @sakasakiii 's erestor design so I wanted to draw him

#THIS DESERVES ITS OWN TAG #things i ABSOLUTELY adore <333 #op your colouring is just so breathtaking 🥺 please teach me #his expression is so on point i canttt #you draw him better than i ever could <3 #sorry i hope im not like screeching too much but i gotta vocalise the excitement somehow #talented brilliant incredible amazing show stopping spectacular never the same totally unique #silmarillion #erestor #other people’s amazing art <3

[sakasakiii]

omggggGGGG HI YOU'RE BACK i love your art!! your designs for the characters are so inspiring and unique!! and your art style is just so well-suited to the silmarillion <3 my question is, do you have any headcanons about edrahil? he's my favorite underrated blorbo!

HIIIII long time no see indeed!!! thank you so much for your kind words 😭 it means a lot to hear that you like my designs and my art style! im always brawling with how much im trying to tone out the anime influences and adopt a more... 'realistic'(?) style that it ends up being a giant game of mental gymnastics on most days haha 😂 im still figuring it out, but your words are a great reassurance so i am very grateful for them!!!! 🙇‍♀️

onto your question-- edrahil!! he's definitely one of the blorbos that doesn't get enough attention 😤 i would be lying if i said that im not guilty of this too, since i think ive only ever read... one? fic with him in it waa.... but as always with the professor's work, great fun comes from the freedom with which one can interpret the minor characters! here's one of the first doodles i did of him when i got your ask:

the bread and butter of my male characters always ends up being slender bishonen-types, but one of my goals going forth is to try and adapt myself to not falling to same face syndrome in the future, so i thought itd be fun to start by making edrahil swoler than usual on a whim 🙈 based on his one (1) line the book, he strikes me as a steadfast i will follow my liege to my death type of fellow.... and then it snowballed from there.... and that's how my take on edrahil eventually evolved from stoic-man-who-is-also-a-peerless-warrior into a no-thoughts-head-empty-his-majesty-only bodyguard

i like to think he's much nicer than he lets on and nowhere near as serious as his RBF may suggest! much like the rest of finrod's personal guard (aka his fanclub), their lord's wellbeing and public image come first above anything else. perhaps their strong loyalty should be concerning, but it's finrod i-befriend-Men-and-swear-eternal-oaths-of-friendship felagund we're talking about.... so maybe theyve got their own reasons too lmao

this is getting a bit rambly (IM SORRY) but one extra comic and final thoughts under the cut!

thank you again for your kind ask AND this fabulous prompt!! im guilty of devoting too much of my obsession onto the feanorians, so i always appreciate side character prompts to get the lil squirrel wheel in my brain spinning 💖 i hope this is a satisfactory answer, and that you have a great rest of your week!!

#silmarillion #rin replies #solmarillion #finrod #edrahil #comic was inspired by a danny gonzalez skit where a rich guy has a friend constantly rag on him to keep him humble #(if you know which vid im referencing: 👀👀) #except it backfires in finrods case cause edrahil would NEVER speak ill of his liege (and sees no reason to) #to finrod's guards his ability to wear nice clothes and look great while doing so is his valar-given right LMAO #the next time i draw edrahil... he will be swoler..... jojo level swole.... this isnt enough.... #i should do a serious take one day but its much more tempting to do goofy stuff #the silmarillion #the silmarillion fanart #silm #nargothrond #celegorm #curufin #finrod and his guardsmen #finrod felagund #noldor #elves #lotr elves #silm art #sakasakart #orodreth #headcanons #sketch dump #textual ghosts

[sakasakiii]

day 1 of @tolkiengenweek: fingon & maeglin in mandos.

a little while ago i did this piece and @tanoraqui mentioned maeglin in the tags. anyways i was thinking about which nolofinwion would be best at dealing w maeglin's trauma.

turgon means well, but maeglin probably doesn't want to talk to him. aredhel is a) his mom and b) part of the traumatic backstory so that would also be difficult. argon never even made it past the grinding ice (and frankly i havent figured out his personality enough to do one of these). fingon, however, kept nicely to the theme of eldest son & youngest grandson and made sense trauma-wise.

so anyways here's fingon helping maeglin deal with the aftermath of his time in morgoth's captivity and the trauma of losing aredhel.

#aughhh #//old man clutching heart meme #way to hit where it hurts chief #as ever your ruminations are /chefs kiss/ so! good! #ive never really seen the dynamic between these two explored but the reasonings make perfect sense #fingon strikes me as someone whose valour is a perfect result of kindness; warmth; gentleness; etc #and in stone gondolin maybe things like that are harder to come by per merit of turgons burdens + the heavy weight of events surrounding -> #(/cont) aredhels death so although they werent wholly absent compassion of fingon's caliber is something maeglin is very unused to #and honestly perhaps even terrified of?? thinking him to have ulterior motifs like idk morgoth or sauron... #that he may have experienced during his time in angband..... #your art captures that vibe so well 😭😭 #i loveee maeglins hair too he looks like such a lil bean #ALSO THE TAGS W/ MAEDHROS AHHHH brb crying in the club rn #silmarillion #fingon #maeglin

[sakasakiii]

the idea of the peredhel twins having heightened senses due to their maia blood is one of the concepts ive seen floating around that i really like, so here's my take on it combined with the feanorians (+ fingon) lingering about as houseless spirits that i explored some time ago in an old inktober post 😌

houseless spirits see all, but they can't interact with the world around them so i suppose that makes for quite a static existence...but compared to an oathbound eternity in Mandos (sans Fingon??), i like to imagine they'll stay a little longer to watch over those left behind, just to make sure they're doing alright 👍🏻

some more lighthearted bonuses cuz why not:

#silmarillion #maedhros #maglor #kidnap fam #elrond #elros #silmarillion comic #itd be pretty freaky to see injured ghost dudes lurking around but honestly i think after sirion its just another monday to the the twins #maglor has an inkling of whats going on but maedhros shrugs it off as kids having overactive imaginations #fingons here to mourn over maedhros' decline but also to make sure turgons great grandkids are doing aite #i despise colouring 😭😭 #peredhel twins #sons of feanor #celegorm #caranthir #curufin #fingon #ambarussa #amrod #amras #mnm's dysfunctional family #noldor #amon ereb #silm #the silmarillion #the silmarillion fanart #elves #sakasakart #silm art #ghosts

[sakasakiii]

so i was inspired by that post about ardavision and. Daeron shows up to the competition and then there’s maglor just excited to wear some of his old stuff from the valinor concert days. (he put gem dust in his hair to make it blue-r)

#PLEEEASEEEE #he’s ethereal your honour #the colours in mags’ clothes #🥹🥹🥹 #how do you draw hair so pretty!!!! #poor daeron never stood a chance #I still love him and his fit tho 😤🫣 #tag yourself I’m in the crowd sobbing my eyes out #maglor #silmarillion #daeron #other people’s amazing art <3

[sakasakiii]

Maglor has no harp, Maglor needs no harp

#PRETTYYY #loving the fit #the way his hands weave through his hair is first of all #SO well drawn #and also they look like he’s playing a harp in his hair hahaha #it’s lovely! #silmarillion #maglor #fave <3

[sakasakiii]

henry the viii's wives mnemonic, but its the high kings of the noldor

#10/10 brought a tear to my eye #this makes me want to see a horrible histories version of the silm #but the characters are just mocking each other in bad costumes #silmarillion

[sakasakiii]

hc that celebrimbor is the reserved type – he doesn't get much of a chance to voice his own stance because the voices of his father and grandfather are so overpowering. when they make it to middle earth and feanor's death leaves them lost and alone, curufin starts saying "speak" to encourage celebrimbor to say what's on his mind. sometimes it works and celebrimbor opens up, sometimes it feels more like an order and he puts up his walls.

in nargothrond, he grows close with finrod. feels himself talking more freely, enjoying conversation, feeling lighter. finrod only says "speak, friend" once – celebrimbor offers his mind and his skill gladly after the first time.

but the veneer of peace and security shatters when beren arrives and curufin and celegorm repeat their oath and sway the people against finrod. finrod throws his crown to the floor, and he walks past curufin and celegorm without looking at them. he looks at celebrimbor, though, but under all those eyes and all the fear and anxiety in the room, celebrimbor can't bring himself to say a word. the hurt is clear in finrod's mien.

the guilt and self-loathing at his own silence and cowardice bites at celebrimbor, made worse by curufin's misplaced pride in him – until orodreth turns against them all. celebrimbor has no great love for orodreth, but for finrod's sake, he will speak.

he tells curufin he will not follow him into exile a second time

#I was vibing with this take on tyelpe #until that last sentence hit me like a flyswatter #I am but a fly on the wall and DAMN that hurt #the classic Finrod thing to make a positive impact on someone’s life for the better then peace out #I’m obsessed….. #silmarillion #celebrimbor

[sakasakiii]

"The first was lean and wiry, with thick black curls and a narrow white face. He was beautiful, in a faded sort of way (...) The second was so tall he had to stoop to get through his own doorway; he had a crooked nose and hair the colour of copper."

Maedhros and Maglor, as they appear in "we will make this place our home".

#WOAH #I love this fic so much qwq #it has a cozy sorta vibe I really adore <33 #I need to catch up with it pronto #silmarillion #maedhros #maglor