From the Shores of Cuiviénen by Oshun

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: The Dark Rider’s Horses and Other Creatures (Other Silmarillion-based locations) I want an Origins story -- characters optional--but I like to think of Beleg . . . Anything dated from the shores of Cuiviénen to the early days of the march across the mountains to the sea. . .
Format: photomanip
Genre: history
Rating: general
Warnings: no warnings apply
Characters: Círdan, and the earliest mariners among the Quendi.
Pairings: none (Círdan's love of the sea?}
Summary: I wrote the original prompt and bought it also, but decided to take my idea of Origins and apply it to Círdan's earliest days and claim to fame. Enjoy!

Source is screen cap from opening credits from season 3, Vikings, The History Channel, actually mostly my head and looked at a picture from the Viking Ship Museum; used a mouse and Gimp photo-editing program. T

Comments

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

I think one would call it "colour burn." I did it over and over again varying the shades of blue and diddling in between with lightness and contrast. Purely seat-of-the-pants intuitive stuff. So I made my own drawing/digital painting of an original ship and background and am trying to get a near identical colour scheme and having one hell of a time. I hate it when I get what I want once and cannot duplicate it.

Thank you so much. I probably should have left it up, but I started freaking out over the attribution question. Life is too complicated for me and my tiny little pea brain.

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

I go seat of the pants regularly when it comes to Photoshop, so that's hardly something I can criticize in any way (nor is it something that should be criticized, imho - it's good for learning more functions of the program). Replicating it, though... augh, yes. This is why I always save a .psd file of my photomanips, so I can go back and check what I did if I want to replicate it, but even then sometimes the images make all the difference in how the effects look. And if you're painting entirely now (that's so neat!) I guess it'd be easiest to just paint the light effects the way you want them outright, rather than go for manipulation over your painting.

And if you have a pea brain, that's a scarily huge pea in my book!

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

that's a scarily huge pea in my book!

Awww! Flattery with get you a long way with me! I'm feeling kind of low this week.

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

Is it still flattery if I mean it? But... *hugs, at any rate* Did I mention yet that I really liked your art prompt of the woman to be tied to Imrahil or Ivriniel? It's giving me all sorts of itchy fingers, since I've been wanting to revisit Dol Amroth, so that'll probably one I'll tackle over the course of the month. :)

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

I would love it if you did that one!