Meanwhile in Moria….

Graeme Skinner — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:59:13 +0000

The theme of the month over on John Howe’s website was Fiat Lux “Light should be the focus of the theme, whether it’s shadows, flames, rising or setting suns or distant stars. Lots of possibilities, from Prometheus bringing fire to mankind to the lovely shadow cast by an object from the lamp on your table…” So, I wondered how little light was required to illustrate a scene – more specifically if I could get away with using as little light as possible. Turns out it is quite difficult at times and I ended up painting areas far too light anyway… this is Gandalf as he sits through the ‘nights’ watch in the guard room during the Fellowships journey through Moria.

Acrylic on board 16 x 12 inch then some photoshop work to get the levels and tint I wanted but could not quite achieve with the brush.

Going Underground

Graeme Skinner — Tue, 05 May 2015 19:37:23 +0000

The theme of the month for May on John Howe’s website is ‘Underworlds’ and I jokingly said…

Which started me thinking, there should really be a London Underground style map for Moria. So I started plotting and planning, the trouble was there were so few places mentioned in Moria to map out, so I decided to add a few places. It turns out the map I came up with was Moria as seen a few hundred years after the events in The Lord of the Rings.

I realize not everyone is happy reading runes, so here is an alternative version link.

moria – Graeme Skinner

Meanwhile in Moria….

Going Underground