Lúthien pin design and Elven Easter eggs (Patreon)

They say you should get straight back into a car after an accident. I'll extend the metaphor to designing your next pin straight after a train wreck of a production line. ;) 

The good thing is that, with his horrible zombie smurf pin, I learned LOADS of useful things. One, my lines can be way, way thinner than I thought and still look fantastic. Two, I need a pantone book. I hope I'll be able to somehow manage light Elven skin. 

Talking about light Elven skin, over twenty years ago, I spent Easter with my parents and my mother and I painted Easter eggs. I did about ten Silmarillion-themed eggs, We soon found that brown eggs give you a nice skin tone without having to paint one, and my mother, who never turns down a bit of mother-daughter-nerdiness, had a devious amount of fun walking up to shop assistants asking, "Excuse me, can you help me find very light-skinned eggs? They're for Elves, you see." 

To this day, I think of very light brown eggs as Elf-eggs.