The Gollum character illustrations by artist and blogger Honey are all very intricate and well-drawn. Honey is the founder of Sweet Station, a popular blog that exhibits works of designers, illustrators and other types of artists’ works.
As an explanation of her drawings, she points out that Gollum is one of the most intriguing characters in the Lord of the Ring’s series for her, which I am in complete agreement with.
Gollum is a character that is defined by the idea of obsession and underlies a lot of the mental illness symptoms when taken at a basic level. Honey also shares an interesting fact about how "a psychiatrist and a group of medical students in London have diagnosed Gollum, with schizoid personality disorder" which makes her character illustrations that much more interesting to engage with.
Enigmatic Fantasy Character Illustrations
Artists Honey Illustrates and Discusses Gollum Character
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