It’s a miniature theme over on John Howe’s website so I thought of small trees for some reason 😉
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Author: Graeme Skinner
Barrow-downs
Having been re-reading the early chapters of Lord of the Rings recently I decided to try illustrating the Barrow-downs, my first attempt in watercolour was a mess, not sure why it just didn’t work at all. So I attempted a quick digital piece, but it looked weird and so fake it was embarrassing 😉 my only option of course was to combine watercolour and digital – well, it wasn’t my only option as that failed badly too 🙂 so I started an acrylic version, I was almost happy with the…
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Quick watercolour…
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It’s strange how the mind works, I started sketching a sea arch, though I don’t know why 😉 anyway, the rocks kept growing and the sketch changed from a sea scene to Gandalf starting one of his dark journeys…
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I’ve been pondering Rivendell, or mainly the architecture of the main building, the only way I could really get it sorted in my head was to try and paint it. I had more fun doing the cliffs than the building itself – but that’s the way things go sometimes. I ended up using photoshop to correct a couple of bits of landscape and add some more mist.
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