Sketch for Brooding : pencil on printer paper : 8.5" x 11" : 01/2002. This is a study for Brooding, which was an illustration done for "Whispers of the Ring," a Lord of the Rings alternate universe fanfic I am writing with Tammy Lee. This sketch came out suprisingly quickly; I had been starting to get pretty deeply immersed in the character and his inner struggles and agonies really struck me as I was drawing this. I also got rather infatuated with his bracers :)