I must start this post with a heartfelt and sincere apology. To all those who find the lighter side of fantasy art offensive you maybe should stop reading now, and to those who think you should never be over influenced by another illustration then you’re really not going to like this 😉 Okay, the explanation…. I was trying to come up with an idea for animals in armour as this is the theme over on John Howe’s website. So I sketched a few chickens in armour, and tried to think…
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That inner wizard
I was trying to come up with an idea for a picture on the theme of mirrors, and I started to think, we don’t always let ourselves see what is really being reflected. So, I opted to paint the stereotypical fantasy geek/nerd in his bedroom with grim looking walls and shelves filled with books. Looking in the mirror he doesn’t see the his drab room or his bald chubby face looking back at him 😉
Read MoreIt’s strange….
It’s strange how things develop and change when you’re playing with ideas for a painting. I’ve been wondering for a while how I’d paint Bilbo meeting Gandalf for the first time at Bag End, so I sat down with a couple of pencils and a large sketch book and pondered. Nothing came to me, I stared at a blank piece of paper and wondered if it was like they say about carving, the piece is already there you just have to chip away the waste. Well, I tried looking at…
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Looking out over Tolkien’s Middle Earth wondering where to visit next. Based on this image of John Howe on top of a hill (I stood peering over the edge there once, and I’m sure I saw some misty mountains in the distance), and of course the map of Middle Earth by Tolkien. I wasn’t sure whether I wanted the place names on or not, and I’m still not sure, here’s the version without the text.
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I’ve been playing with type lately, it’s something I used to do years ago and fell out of the habit, but since downloading a trial of QuarkXPress I’ve got back into it 😉 So I asked around for some quotes/words that I could use (rather than use my own favourite quotes which everyone is probably sick of hearing). So here’s two versions of a latin quote, and one Moo!
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