Tolkien – Page 2 – Graeme Skinner

Sheltering

27 February 202128 February 2021 Graeme Skinner

Carrying on from the Stormcrow post the other day I went with Gandalf sheltering from the storm, somewhere in Middle Earth (just a few miles down the road from Bree). I did borrow a reference image for the tree 😉 I’m not all that happy with the right arm, hand, lower legs, head tilt, but I’m not changing it now 😉 Edit – I decided to play with this in After Effects 😉

Dawn over the Shire

13 January 2021 Graeme Skinner

I started a reference sketch in photoshop for a painting, it was supposed to be a watercolour yet I ended up finishing it in Photoshop – not sure it’s what I wanted to achieve but it’s done, for now 😉

Return to type

9 November 2020 Graeme Skinner

Decided to play with type for a change….

After the party

21 June 2020 Graeme Skinner

Quick sketch of a Gandalf mask for the theme of the month over on John Howe’s website.

Tirith Aear

17 June 2020 Graeme Skinner

I’d call this a small doodle, but in reality it’s 73x54cm 😉 I decided to do something in carbon pencil again as I haven’t used them for a while, so I ended up trying a Tolkien themed piece – Tirith Aear, now I’ve tried this version of it a version in oil might be in order. Whilst the majority of this was completed in carbon pencil I did add some highlights back in photoshop as they vanished when I snapped the photo of it.