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In Faery. A picture inspired by the beautiful short story Smith of Wotton Major, which I really love. This is my first illustration of it, but I would love to draw more; it is certainly not often seen. The story is written by Tolkien but is not part of the Middle-earth Legendarium and the protagonist (Smith) from our world visits the land of Faery. So this is meant to be a general faery scenery that he is able to see (thanks to a faery-star shining on his brow).⁠
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As I often take inspiration from Tolkien's own art, this time I used the original illustrations of this story by Pauline Baynes and tried to somewhat emulate her style. While her illustrations are mostly black and white, I wanted to add some colour, but still keep it relatively simple. So the faery scenery is all in blue and green and bright white, while the Smith is the only thing in earthy brown hue.⁠
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So what do you think about my illustration? 🙂⁠

Description
In Faery. A picture inspired by the beautiful short story Smith of Wotton Major, which I really love. This is my first illustration of it, but I would love to draw more; it is certainly not often seen. The story is written by Tolkien but is not part of the Middle-earth Legendarium and the protagonist (Smith) from our world visits the land of Faery. So this is meant to be a general faery scenery that he is able to see (thanks to a faery-star shining on his brow).⁠
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As I often take inspiration from Tolkien's own art, this time I used the original illustrations of this story by Pauline Baynes and tried to somewhat emulate her style. While her illustrations are mostly black and white, I wanted to add some colour, but still keep it relatively simple. So the faery scenery is all in blue and green and bright white, while the Smith is the only thing in earthy brown hue.⁠
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So what do you think about my illustration? 🙂⁠