The Steward's Sons - Body Type Comparison

If Faramir thinks about clothes any harder he may actually turn into a pair of trousers.

Boromir Ref. Sketches

He was a rather unfortunate-looking twelve-year-old.

Vanka of Ten Thousand Scars

An officer and tribal leader at the time of the War of the Ring, Vanka is one of very few orc women to rise as high as she has; another is her sister, Irinna, an elective mute and perhaps even a greater force to be reckoned with on the battlefield than Vanka herself, which is a high compliment indeed.

Faramir - facial ref. sheet

I subvert things, more or less by existing, and LOTR, despite its in many ways fantastic world-building, is ripe for subversion largely because Tolkein was so very Anglocentric - I mean, he was a British professor writing in the first half of the twentieth century, so it sort of comes with the territory but it's still quite glaringly THERE.

And Gondor is sort of the Faded Classical Culture of that world.

And I like doing character design.

And so I decided Gondorians look sort of Greco-roman, with olive skin, arched noses, dark curly hair, etc.  My friend Pearl enjoys my bizarre ramblings and has been wanting to draw my version of Denethor's sons, and was having a hard time with Faramir, ergo, facial ref-sheet.  He looks considerably less Grecian than many of his people due his Numenorian mum.