ColleenDoran.com » Lord of the Rings

07/08/2011

Colleen — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 05:00:00 +0000

Idea sketch for “The Death of Glorfindel”, a Lord of the Rings themed work based on a scene from The Silmarillion.

12/10/2010

Colleen — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000

This is not an official Tolkien piece, but I drew this with the the character Radagast the Brown in mind some years ago. I don’t think it’s ever been published. Recently, The One Ring.net contacted me to ask if I had any Lord of the Rings portraits they could use in their galleries. I pulled [...]

11/15/2010

Colleen — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0000

This is what I think of when I consider Thranduil, from The Hobbit. But this is not an official Tolkien piece. I call it “Elf King”. This colored version of an earlier sketch is a combination of hand painted work and digital composited in Photoshop.

06/24/2010

Colleen — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:00:00 +0000

A drawing from The Silmarillion. This was a personal work. Maeglin is one of the few bad elves in the Tolkien saga. He fell in love with his cousin Idril, but she spurned him. He was captured by Orcs and in order to save himself, he agreed to betray the elves to Morgoth. For this [...]

03/26/2010

Colleen — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Art from Girl to Grrrl Manga. This pic was based on my friend Jarl Benzon, who is one of my favorite models. He was Orlando Bloom’s body double in the Lord of the Rings films, and appears as an elf in a number of scenes.

03/14/2010

Colleen — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000

A sketch of Thranduil, the King of Mirkwood and father of Legolas from The Hobbit. I’ll be on Blog Talk Radio talking Lord of the Rings today. Please see blog post below for details. Also, click the tab or peruse the galleries for more sketches.

Colleen on Blog Talk Radio with The One Ring.net

Colleen — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:30:52 +0000

Author and acclaimed artist Colleen Doran on TheOneRing.net Radio Show Sunday March 14th at 2PM ET Colleen’s published works number in the hundreds with clients such as The Walt Disney Company, Marvel Entertainment, DC Comics, Image Comics, Lucasfilm, Dark Horse Comics, Harper Collins, Houghton Mifflin, Sony, and Scholastic. Her credits include Amazing Spiderman, Sandman, Captain [...]

02/04/2010

Colleen — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

This portrait of Legolas from The Lord of the Rings is entitled Gimli’s Gift. Movie fans don’t understand the title, but book fans do. In the book, Gimli’s gift to Legolas is an introduction to the beautiful crystal caves of the dwarf realms, and a greater understanding of dwarf culture. This piece was created to [...]