Step #5

Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn and Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins

Source: Source: dvd extended edition "The Fellowship of the Ring"
style: photo realistic
graphite on watercolor hot pressed paper

Instead of making a simple portrait, I wanted to picture one of my favorite scenes from "The Fellowship of the Ring" so the drawing is made from 3 screen captures from that scene. The title is actually a part of the dialogue. In this scene, Aragorn tells Frodo: "I would have gone with you to the end. Into the very fires of Mordor"

Bilbo Baggins

style: photo realistic
graphite on watercolor hot pressed paper
Time to draw: over 50 hours

Ring bearers: Frodo and the Witch King

Sources:  http://www.lordoftherings.net/ & http://www.theonering.net/
graphite on watercolor hot pressed paper
Time to draw: 63 hours

Sam Gamgee

Source: http://warofthering.net/
graphite on bristol paper

Galadriel in "The Fellowship of the Ring"

Source: DVD "The Fellowship of the Ring" long version
graphite on smooth paper

Gandalf the Grey

Source: unknown
graphite on smooth paper

Aragorn

Source: http://lordoftherings.net
graphite on smooth paper

Elrond in The Fellowship of the Ring

Source: DVD "The Fellowship of the Ring"
graphite on smooth paper

Legolas

Source: http://lordoftherings.net
graphite on smooth paper

You can see another portrait of Orlando Bloom in the "Commissions" gallery.

Boromir in "The Fellowship of the Ring"

Source: dvd extended edition "The Fellowship of the Ring"
graphite on smooth paper

Eomer in "The Return of the King" (with a color background)

Source: http://lordoftherings.net
color pencils on grain paper

Eomer in "The Return of the King" (with a white background)

Source: http://lordoftherings.net
color pencils on grain paper

Arwen in "The Return of the King"

Source: http://lordoftherings.net
color pencils on grain paper

Gollum in "The Return of the King"

Source: http://lordoftherings.net
graphite on smooth paper