I sat down to do a serious, detailed study of Old Man Willow (as seen in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings (just in case anyone was wondering)). So I’m unsure how I ended up doing this 😉 Tired of rescuing pesky Hobbits from the clutches of Old Man Willow, Tom Bombadil decided to put up a sign warning those approaching of the dangers. “If that doesn’t work, I’ll hack the darned thing down.” He muttered to himself walking away from the newly erected sign.
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Lost in Middle Earth
It took a while, but eventually Alatar realized that Pallando had brought the wrong map, and so the two Blue Wizards were never heard of in Middle Earth again….
Read MoreStill escaping….
I wasn’t all that happy with the illustration of Bilbo escaping to the eyrie I completed the other day. So I decided to try a digital version, this time I worked in a couple of my photographs for the misty trees, slapped some hills in the background and of course repainted the flying eagle/dwarf/hobbit combo 😉
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A first attempt at Bilbo escaping to the eyrie.
Read MoreDeath of Smaug
I was sketching dragons again recently, well I often sketch dragons but this time there was a purpose, the theme of the month over at john-howe.com for December was Dragons. As a certain dragon was on my mind with the Desolation of Smaug hitting the silver screen* I ended up wondering how Smaug would look after the black arrow had done its job 😉 This was a fun dragon to work on, well any character from Tolkien is fun to attempt – rather than use traditional medium I worked in…
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