I have a for a while been tinkering with a digital piece for the theme of the month ‘competition’ over on John Howe‘s website, the them Dawn’s Early Light was one that appealed to me but the digital piece really wasn’t working out as I wanted it to. For some reason the line from Lord of the Rings kept going through my head “Yet dawn is ever the hope of men,” so I decided to play with type instead of banging my head against the wall with the failing digital…
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Bit of a watercolour doodle to get me back in the ‘zone’ 😉 Gandalf wandering towards Caradhras with a bit of snow in the air (also in his hair).
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Still sketching standing stones, well, it would be rude not to 😉 this time inspired by the standing stones from the Barrow-Downs that Frodo & Co. encountered in the Fellowship of the Ring. This is quite a large piece (22.5″ x 19″) using 2B Wolff’s Carbon Pencil on paper.
Read MoreMany moons ago I started work on an illustration, it was a simple idea, however the execution of the piece took a little longer than anticipated 😉 The theme I was working towards was Statuesque over on John Howe’s website – so I decided to illustrate the statue placed high above Rivendell to the memory of Celebrían, though the scene shown is many years after the last of the Elves had left for the West so the statue was in a poor state of repair….
Read MoreWhilst out with the camera I managed to grab a photograph of Mr Beard wandering by, he wasn’t overly impressed with being photographed as apparently such a process is far too hasty for his liking.
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