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 π I’m not all that happy with the right arm, hand, lower legs, head tilt, but I’m not changing it now π Edit – I decided to play with this in After Effects π
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Dawn over the Shire
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 π
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Decided to play with type for a change….
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Quick sketch of a Gandalf mask for the theme of the month over on John Howe’s website.
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I’d call this a small doodle, but in reality it’s 73x54cm π 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.
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