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Hiya!
Saw your page and really liked your description of how to draw Pini
elves. I will add one comment to this already lucid and detailed
analysis. In addition to the slightly different face proportions between
elves and humans (thus the eyes are not -quite- at the center, but
rather a little lower and taking up much more of the face) the fact that
the eyes are often slanted adds another difficulty to the rendering. The
way I found to deal with the problem was to draw a curved line across
the face (actually two parallel curved lines for the upper and lower
borders of the eyes) and draw the eyes (of whatever shape) within them.
For nearly a year of the year and a half that I have been trying to
draw EQ elves, I used slanted eyes for all of the elves I did.
Predictably, they all looked more or less alike. Then I read through the
BG again and began forcing myself to draw all kinds of elves. :)
Although I didn't put many of my pictures up on my webpage, this gives
you some idea of how I draw. Actually, I believe all my drawings on this
page are of my half-goback I play on TwoMoons. Thus they do look more or
less alike. If you are interested, I could send you some of my other
elves. :)
My URL: http://fly.hiwaay.net/~hlace/
Best wishes,
Hyla
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