We’ve nearly reached the end of October already!
Day 20: Beauty – In my opinion Richard Armitage’s portrayal of Thorin Oakenshield was beautiful and this particular pice of CAD took so long and was spread over so many layers.
Day 21: Laughter – I always giggle at the thought that the Nazgul were invisible.
Day 22: The Road – I used that literally and put the road within the letter ‘O’
I really prefer the simple pieces I’ve created for this.
Wow! I cant believe its already time for Day 19 Tolkientober is flying by so quickly.
Day 17: Hands – Now I’m not particularly good at drawing hands so this one was a little challenging but I’m actually quite pleased with it!
Day 18: Party – I love the iconic ‘no admittance’ sign in The Lord Of The Rings.
Continuing to post as many of my offerings for #tolkientober so that I can actually finish posting them on the 31st. Day 19 was eyes, so I did a quick pen and pencil drawing of Smaug’s eye (it was actually for the eye challenge for DeviantArt).
Nearly half way with Tolkientober already!
Day 12: Magic – I really love quote art! Its so simple to do but so effective and takes almost no time at all when created using CAD.
Day 13: History – So day thirteen is history. I made my own version of the Arkenstone from The Hobbit movies, by finding a fairly biggish smooth stone and painted with a whole pot of glitter nail varnish!
Day 14: – Quest, so I did a quick pen and pencil drawing of Thorin’s map from The Hobbit.
Days nine through eleven for Tolkientober 2021
Day 9 was a rest day! It feels a lot less challenging with the included rest days.
Day 10: Healing – ‘The hands of the King are the hands of a healer and so shall the rightful King be known’ is a quote from Return of the King (Book) and is about Aragorn
Day 11: Fellowship – I decided to recreate the simple but iconic image of the fellowship of the ring leaving Rivendell. and beginning the journey across Middle Earth.
Here’s a few more days for Tolkientober.
Day 6: Food – As food was the theme I thought I create the unexpectedly small hobbit tea party, unsurprisingly this took longer than expected.
Day 7: Songs – Just a quick little calligraphy art. The Road Goes Ever On, is a walking song by J.R.R. Tolkien, fictionally written by Bilbo Baggins; lyrics from The Hobbit are –
Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
By streams that never find the sea;
Over snow by winter sown,
And through the merry flowers of June,
Over grass and over stone,
And under mountains in the moon.
Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known.
It’s one of my favourites. I’ve made quite a lot of LotR/Hobbit art over the last year, which is cool when you think that the Fellowship of the Ring is twenty this year.
Day 8: Swords A quick pen and pencil of Bilbo’s (and then Frodo’s) sword Sting.
I know that these flowers are super simple and fairly child-like, but I’m actually really pleased with them! I was kind of going for simplified Wildflowers from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Again they’re made using Arteza brush pens…I think I might start doing some tutorials in 2022…maybe…
On this day in 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit was published. The first line of chapter 1 is ‘In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit.’ this particular book has always ben a favourite of mine and I read it more or less once a year. The copy I have was illustrated by Michael Hague and I found it in a little coffee/bookshop near LochNess in Scotland.
Placed onto the page is a coaster I made of a cartoonised door to BagEnd.
Also seeing as tomorrow is September 22nd – which is Bilbo Baggins’ Birthday I dug out my very well read copy of The Hobbit, think I might read it again…safe to say this is the book that ignited my love of dragons! Michael Hauge’s illustrations are beautiful and lead me to the works of John Howe and Alan Lee.
Thanks for visiting, have a safe adventure.
Happy Friday friends. This is a little bit of a then and now post. Some recent doodles and an old one to compare together.
These were drawings I did (along with about one hundred others) in 2020-2021 during the pandemic. I bought a set of Arteza brush pens – which are amazing and got into the habit of drawing something everyday. I do feel the yellow one is way too much like Spyro, so maybe not purple and yellow in the future!
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Today I thought I’d show you some of my recent doodles, I love anything fantasy related and will happily sit and draw dragons all day long!
I like to start with a very rough (and faint) pencil drawing and then go back and add the main details. Recently I drew two different dragon eye close ups.
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