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This is an illustration for a fanfic I wrote. (It's a moment from Chapter 3 ) I did a limited selection of scenes from the fic as comic pages in order to test out different methods and styles of making comic pages. This is not and will never be a full comic adaptation of the fic! There are just a few one-off pages that don't directly connect! (also some miscellaneous illustrations) I know there are a lot of full fic-to-comic projects on dA and this is not one of them. I do not have the patience, frankly, and I admire those who do.

This page was trying out some of Clip Studio Paint's comic features (panel folders, etc)- I was going to do full color, but I found the process I was trying too time-intensive and ended up essentially ragequitting on the page and finishing it with screentones instead. The lineart is digital.

The guy toting Gollum around is an OC. I try to avoid using too many OCs in fic because they're usually just not who people are there to read about and they're certainly not who I'm there to write about, but I thought it was the logical thing to throw in a few here because Gollum needs frequent attention and supervision, and none of the canon characters would reasonably end up with that job. They all have their own things to do at this point. (and they all deserve better than to have to put up with gollum)

Therefore Aragorn has appointed a bunch of randos who are willing to pop in during the night, provide food/water/medical care, and be bitten and slimed on at random intervals. There are actually multiple rotating people looking after Gollum because Aragorn didn't feel as if it would be ethical to ask anyone to have to stay with him for longer than ten minutes or so at a time. The person on this page is a member of this team who is particularly tolerant of biting and slime. He has started pragmatically wearing thick gloves.

At this point in the story, this guy has formed the sort of bond with Gollum that one forms with a wild animal by feeding it and caring for it when it can't fend you off. Gollum now accepts the man's presence and even prefers being carried around to having to navigate on his own, but he also doesn't completely trust his handler not to drop him, which is why he's clinging with his hands and feet like that. He's being particularly clingy because this is the first time he's left his little quarantine room in quite some time and he's scared of Boromir.

Description

This is an illustration for a fanfic I wrote. (It's a moment from Chapter 3 ) I did a limited selection of scenes from the fic as comic pages in order to test out different methods and styles of making comic pages. This is not and will never be a full comic adaptation of the fic! There are just a few one-off pages that don't directly connect! (also some miscellaneous illustrations) I know there are a lot of full fic-to-comic projects on dA and this is not one of them. I do not have the patience, frankly, and I admire those who do.

This page was trying out some of Clip Studio Paint's comic features (panel folders, etc)- I was going to do full color, but I found the process I was trying too time-intensive and ended up essentially ragequitting on the page and finishing it with screentones instead. The lineart is digital.

The guy toting Gollum around is an OC. I try to avoid using too many OCs in fic because they're usually just not who people are there to read about and they're certainly not who I'm there to write about, but I thought it was the logical thing to throw in a few here because Gollum needs frequent attention and supervision, and none of the canon characters would reasonably end up with that job. They all have their own things to do at this point. (and they all deserve better than to have to put up with gollum)

Therefore Aragorn has appointed a bunch of randos who are willing to pop in during the night, provide food/water/medical care, and be bitten and slimed on at random intervals. There are actually multiple rotating people looking after Gollum because Aragorn didn't feel as if it would be ethical to ask anyone to have to stay with him for longer than ten minutes or so at a time. The person on this page is a member of this team who is particularly tolerant of biting and slime. He has started pragmatically wearing thick gloves.

At this point in the story, this guy has formed the sort of bond with Gollum that one forms with a wild animal by feeding it and caring for it when it can't fend you off. Gollum now accepts the man's presence and even prefers being carried around to having to navigate on his own, but he also doesn't completely trust his handler not to drop him, which is why he's clinging with his hands and feet like that. He's being particularly clingy because this is the first time he's left his little quarantine room in quite some time and he's scared of Boromir.