I was playing with ideas for a poster to feature some of our favourite typefaces, it was quite interesting looking up details of each of the particular typefaces, now all I need to do is mount and frame it. It’ll be available as a limited edition print on a nice quality paper and as a bulk print on a lighter weight paper. (For some reason it has come out a bit ‘red’ when it was saved for the web’).
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Niggle would approve.
I started sketching a tree for the theme of the month over on John Howe’s website, it was supposed to be a quick simple sketch, then I got too the branches. The good intentions of a quick doodle to get in the right frame of mind went out the window and I started to become a little obsessive over the branches, I ended up doodling away at each little branch ignoring pretty much everything else. However, I get the feeling I need to obsess over the branches of the next…
Read MoreWizards go a wandering
Trying to get ideas together for a painting, or maybe I should just say doodling for inspiration π Anyway, this is a digital doodle of the two blue wizards briefly mentioned by Tolkien and pondered about by many ever since π Not happy with the first wizards colour, well it may grow on me, and perhaps I should change one of the hats….. first of all though I’ll collapse and sleep for an hour or three.
Read MoreAlatar and Pallando drop by…
A quick(ish) oil painting of Alatar and Pallando’s wizarding kit when they stopped by for a visit. I’ve not used oil paints in ages so this was more of an experiment to remind myself how things work as much as anything.
Read MoreBeorn
I sat down to draw Beorn from J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit in his human form meeting Bilbo and Gandalf, so of course I ended up drawing Beorn in bear form, well, these things happen π
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