In december i had this crazy and unrealistic idea to paint series of pictures about maedhros and fingon, because their friendship is (for me) one of the most interesting and beautiful (and also tragic) topics in the silmarillion. At first i had ideas for 15 pictures, i narrowed that down to 10 while sketching. The most easy ones. Time to time i look at them thinking that they are not so bad, other times i think that they are bad and i don't feel like painting the next ones, because they require skills that i don't have: anatomy, perspective, anatomy in perspective, male faces, male faces with expressions, male faces with expressions in perspective, action, hands, feet, balrogs, balrogs not looking like cute dogs, fire, fire looking like fire, crowds expressing emotions, battles in background, battles in foreground, and so on.