Thorin in Bree

My husband and I were so excited when Desolation of Smaug started, and you saw Thorin stomping around the streets of Bree. We could have watched him wandering town for the whole movie in all honesty! I actually envision this happening after Gandalf left Thorin to think about what he said, and still wondering about his lost father Thrain. Poor dwarf!

I was feeling a bit down while working on another drawing of Thorin, and I pulled out some regular drawing paper and meant to draw something else... but this happened. And I kept adding to it and adding more... it was actually meant more as a distraction to keep me drawing and get out of my blah mood. I had fun with it, except a few sections, but I'm still happy with it. Especially how Thorin turned out. I'm still trying to push myself to draw backgrounds a little more. I wish I had inked this drawing, but since it was on thinner paper that's not as smooth, I had to use pencil.

Drawn on 11X14 Strathmore drawing paper, using a variety of art pencils (2H, 4H, F, HB, 3B, 4B, 6B, 8B... you get the idea... heheheh). Photographed in B&W, and had a little trouble cropping out non-paper/drawing sections without losing detail of the drawing I wanted to keep.

I almost forgot! This was sketched in blue pencil first -- here are some of those in the Scraps section:
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Edited 7/17/14: Replaced the old photograph with a scan.