Planning on doing a companion piece to my Annatar painting with his true appearance revealed, so I was brainstorming some designs for Sauron. If I was painting an earlier Sauron/Mairon I would probably give him red/gold hair but I imagine Saurons appearance as kind of being leached of colour, bleached and dead looking.
I was also fiddling around with wolf heads on the pauldrons but I’m thinking they may be too complex to find references for lol.