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Post by Ardo Whortleberry on Aug 10, 2009 1:00:11 GMT -6
Noted this thread and the first set of instructions about how to upload artwork to the Vanye album. I did so just now. If my image does not belong in there, please let me know! The story behind my image: When I was in college ('71 - '75), I was reading the Ballantine Books LotR paperbacks with the famous triptych illustrations. When Professor Tolkien passed away in Sept '73, someone had the idea to paint that illustration on the wall of my suite (an unremarkable, white cinder-block wall.) A couple of art majors outlined the illustration, we all kicked in $5, and bought a bunch of "seconds" from a local paint store. The project quickly became a campus event. People would stop by to watch and/or to paint. When it was about done, we had a MAJOR party. I got to paint in the last piece: the small frog sitting in the tree on the left (from the cover of the FOTR). I also wrote an inscription in Tengwar along the molding near the ceiling. Hope you enjoy this! Parmastahir Before I read the story behind this work, I just assumed it had to be the same giant-sized poster ( a super- enlargement of the BREM "triptych" cover art on the Ballantine paperback LOTR editions ) that I used to see on the wall of Pellucidar Books ( Berkeley CA, the shop has been defunct now for a goodly number of years ) - pinned up above the entire paperback SF/Fantasy section on the southside of the bookstore; ( about three bookshelves long ) ===
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Post by Ardo Whortleberry on Aug 10, 2009 2:12:08 GMT -6
Hello, Everyone...
I've never been able to get the hang of "cutting & pasting" anything, either... Before I realized what I was doing, I had already signed up for an "account" at the Bucket place, and then I thought: 'Well, I can just give you guys my "screen name" there ( it was going to be "ardowhort" ) & if anyone wanted to go & look at it, they would be welcome to do so...
But then, after I thought I had successfully uploaded the picture I wanted to upload, it didn't seem like I could even view it myself - or, if there was a way to do this, I couldn't figure it out... Anyways, I already cancelled that account...
I also already had a free "account" with "flickr" - & I believe anyone can go there to view pictures, without having to have an "account" with them...
My "screen name" at "flickr" is: FRABJOUS JOY & I just uploaded my sketch of B. Baggins ( along with some comments ) to my new set: "From My Sketchbooks" ----
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Post by Ardo Whortleberry on Aug 10, 2009 16:58:58 GMT -6
If anyone goes to see my scketch of Bilbo at the flickrsite FRABJOUS JOY - photostream - set: "From My Sketchbooks", I have to add one more note: Bilbo's head is too small for his body! ( an unfortunate error in the basics of representational drawing - not figuring out the correct proportions beforehand! ) --- I will attempt to attach the link ( if that's alright ) & if that will make things easier for anyone: www.flickr.com/13656547@n02hope this works!!! ===
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Post by Stormrider on Aug 11, 2009 5:44:03 GMT -6
Ardo:
Thanks for the link--that helped a lot! You can also insert the picture into this forum, too. When you are posting, click on the "Insert Image" icon in the tool bar--it is between the icon of Earth and the envelope with blue arrows--it looks like a picture. Then paste the link of your image from flicker into the img code.
I agree, Bilbo's head as a bit small and he does look young...but as you commented under the picture, it is your first attempt.
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Post by Stormrider on Aug 11, 2009 5:49:56 GMT -6
Here is a picture I did of Bilbo looking for the end of the forest when he climbed up a tree in Mirkwood. It was done in watercolors and I inserted the black butterflies digitally from my paint shop pro program. My Bilbo looks young, too. It was Autumn when Bilbo and the Dwarves were in the forest so I should have put some autumn leaves on the tree. Oh well, just the thought of painting a bunch of leaves seems tiring! Anyway, now that the background is done, I would have to digitally add the leaves. Maybe that wouldn't be so bad. I have to look in the book to see what kind of trees those were in the forest. I think I only have oak and maple leaves in my program.
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Post by Ardo Whortleberry on Aug 11, 2009 23:45:19 GMT -6
Ardo: Thanks for the link--that helped a lot! You can also insert the picture into this forum, too. When you are posting, click on the "Insert Image" icon in the tool bar--it is between the icon of Earth and the envelope with blue arrows--it looks like a picture. Then paste the link of your image from flicker into the img code. I agree, Bilbo's head as a bit small and he does look young...but as you commented under the picture, it is your first attempt. The problem with that would be that I still haven't got the hang of "pasting" - but I could carefully write down the url of the image & rewrite it in the correct position... One problem with the way I am doing this is that these are photos I took of my artwork ( with a digtal camera ) which were then transfered to & saved in my computer & then uploaded to flickr - but the images were not "scanned" directly into my computer files from a scanner - I'm not sure how much that is to the detriment of the picture quality, although the resulting photos can be enlarged ( at least, at the flickr site, they can be )...
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Post by Ardo Whortleberry on Aug 12, 2009 0:22:22 GMT -6
Here is a picture I did of Bilbo looking for the end of the forest when he climbed up a tree in Mirkwood. It was done in watercolors and I inserted the black butterflies digitally from my paint shop pro program. My Bilbo looks young, too. It was Autumn when Bilbo and the Dwarves were in the forest so I should have put some autumn leaves on the tree. Oh well, just the thought of painting a bunch of leaves seems tiring! Anyway, now that the background is done, I would have to digitally add the leaves. Maybe that wouldn't be so bad. I have to look in the book to see what kind of trees those were in the forest. I think I only have oak and maple leaves in my program. Hello, Stormrider! --- I just took a quick peek at that chapter in "The Hobbit" { "Flies And Spiders" } and it says that it was an enormous old oak that was chosen for Bilbo to climb up!.... But yes, there should be lots of leaves ( this is only a matter of opinion - you can make your drawing any way you wish, of course ! ) - as I recall from the story, after climbing to the highest branches of the tree, Bilbo just sort of popped his head out through the canopy while the rest of him stood below the tangle of leaves and branches and twigs & so on ( the "roof" of the forest, which had to be very thick, since no light [ or hardly any ] was able to penetrate this "roof" into the darkness underneath )... I think this scene would be a bit tricky and technically difficult to portay correctly, anyway - with Bilbo's head ( and possibly his shoulders? ) surrounded by the swath of the tops all the trees and his being able to see nothing but leaves and trees in every direction, under the bright sunlight -- And I would want to somehow convey that: [ "...the tree he had climbed, though it was tall in itself, was standing near the bottom of a wide valley, so that from its top the trees seemed to swell up all round like the edges of a great bowl, and he could not expect to see how far the forest lasted... ] { Chapter VIII - "Flies And Spiders"; "The Hobbit" } A tall order for even an accomplished artist... ( which I certainly am not! ) --- I think your illustrations would go very nicely children's books - have you ever considered anything along those lines? ---
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Post by Ardo Whortleberry on Aug 12, 2009 0:39:55 GMT -6
Stormrider - following your suggestion, I will try to attach another picture ( housed at the flickr site ) onto this site:
( fingers crossed again - here goes --- )
Sorry - it didn't work! I've got another sketch there at flickr ( you may have seen it already ) entitled: "A Glimpse Of Gandalf" ~~~
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Post by Ardo Whortleberry on Sept 9, 2009 19:34:25 GMT -6
A Wednesday, September the Ninth, 2009 ~~~
Well, hello! --
I finally managed to upload a few drawings to the Photobucket site ( via the Vanye album ) - but from there, I am still not able to figure out how to copy & paste the URLs & all that stuff...
Sorry... Actually, since my computer was acting like it was in the doldrums today ( a "virtual memory"/"disk space" problem, apparently ) it took me a very long time just to get to the point where I even could upload those sketches in the first place...
Anyway, those drawings are just a couple of quick sketches - another attempt to visualize a Mr Bilbo Baggins, this time, by taking some #2 pencils to sheets of printer/typing paper --
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Post by Stormrider on Sept 10, 2009 6:52:37 GMT -6
testing . . . member members
It worked! I took the switchit code that changed the word member into friend off all the forums. Finally got around to it.
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Post by Ardo Whortleberry on Sept 10, 2009 19:47:16 GMT -6
I'm afraid the next time I send in some artwork to TR, I will probably have to send it via E-Mail to Desi Baggins - The initial Honeymoon period with the new computer and the new broadband service seems to be over, and running low on disk-space and virtual memory seems to be reeking havoc with the fluidity of processes on this computer... I think a large part of the problem is all these "add-ons" I've been adding on lately, like "flash-players" & so on, which seem to be required for uploading at some sites, and for viewing special-effects at others, which take up too much of the disk-space and then "gum up the works", so I have been having to disable these applications as soon as I plug them in....
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Post by Ardo Whortleberry on Oct 7, 2009 22:26:46 GMT -6
Hello Again - I ust now added one more sketch to the "Photobucket" site ( I'm afraid I'm a little bit all over the place with that - I uploaded the same sketch twice - once to the general page, then once to my own personal album [ "ardostuff" ] But I'm still a bit confused as to transporting the pictures into posts here at TR...
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Post by Stormrider on Oct 8, 2009 6:07:41 GMT -6
Ardo: I didn't see your pictures loaded at TR Fans Photobucket site, so I am using an example of one of my pieces of art below. Is this the Photobucket link you used? s34.photobucket.com/albums/d128/TRFans/ The password is jrrtrules and I set up an album for you called ArdoWhortleberry, of course! Or did you post your art on your own photo album site? Anyway, I think it would work the same way as my example below. The code you are pasting into you post will look something like this but from your album and with your art jpg description: [ IMG ]http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d128/TRFans/ StormriderArt/PostingArt.jpg[ /IMG ]
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Post by Ardo Whortleberry on Oct 8, 2009 18:53:14 GMT -6
Thanks for all the info - I will try this out a bit later - I definitely went to a TR page at the "Photobucket" site - I deposited all of my stuff in an album called "ardostuff" ( some of it still in the "Vanye" album, & a bit of it had wound up on the "home page" ( at least, that's what it looked like to me ) - I never seemed to be prompted to enter the password - I was using the link that had been posted way back on Page One of this thread ( don't know if that has anything to do with it or not )... Sorry I'm such a klutz at all this...
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Post by Stormrider on Oct 8, 2009 20:14:08 GMT -6
Oh! I see you are using the TR Member Photobucket site instead of the TR Fans Photobucket site! I thought we had put that photobucket site on the back burner because we were having trouble with the word "member" being changed to "friend". It was a censored word and the images wouldn't come out because the IMG code link has to be exactly correct and since "member" chaged to "friend", the links were all broken. But since then, I have found the code in the administration area where each forum had the censorship code in it--and I removed it. So now when I post this message, the word "member" should not change to the word "friend". Therefore, all pics posted from that album should work.
I did find your sketches at the TR Members photobucket by the way. Bilbo looks cool!
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