Was it interesting? Thank you, Este. I worried it was sort of long and dull. I suppose I just wanted to get it down in words what I most liked (and didn't like) in Tolkien illustration art.
Plus that I was excited about the idea of having some illustrations I could post to go with my story. I had been collecting images of paintings all this while, paintings that could not be actual illustrations of the fic, but which could give a flavour of this or that scene, or set the mood for the opening of a chapter.
The library book I got out does have good illustrations, but, primarily they are good for my project, not for erotica. They actually are not very compelling. The faces of the models are drawn with little expression. The man's face is a little better, but the woman is wearing the same pretty little smile in nearly every image, no matter what her lover is supposed to be doing to her or she to him. For me, the looks on the faces (conveying the emotions) are always more important than what the bodies are doing.
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Date: 2006-03-18 09:21 pm (UTC)Plus that I was excited about the idea of having some illustrations I could post to go with my story. I had been collecting images of paintings all this while, paintings that could not be actual illustrations of the fic, but which could give a flavour of this or that scene, or set the mood for the opening of a chapter.
The library book I got out does have good illustrations, but, primarily they are good for my project, not for erotica. They actually are not very compelling. The faces of the models are drawn with little expression. The man's face is a little better, but the woman is wearing the same pretty little smile in nearly every image, no matter what her lover is supposed to be doing to her or she to him. For me, the looks on the faces (conveying the emotions) are always more important than what the bodies are doing.