LOTR-SONMER: junio 2008

viernes, 27 de junio de 2008

I wanted to draw the Orcs and the Uruk Hai with a very ugly terrifying appearance that would inspire terror and fear. Nevertheless I think they became quite funny unintentionally, so I did not reach my aim.

viernes, 20 de junio de 2008

Merry and Pippin with the Orcs

The One Ring

Rivendell

Healing Eowyn

Healing Faramir

viernes, 13 de junio de 2008

News from Gandalf

The Hall of Fire

Glorfindel I

On the way to Rivendell

Leaving Bree

viernes, 6 de junio de 2008

Bag End II

A night in the forest

The fox in this case is not very real, however I like it.

And so they stood on the walls II

And so they stood on the walls

I know my characters have a lack of reality in their poses or faces sometimes. Because of this, every now and then I take a photograph of myself (the model I have more to hand) as a model for some expression or pose. In this case, although manipulated, for Eowyn.

Eowyn and Faramir

Since the moment I read ‘Lord of the Rings’ by J.R.R.Tolkien in my early twenties, I became a fan of this wonderful world of fantasy and adventure. As I do often when I read a book I like, I tried to put the images of characters and landscapes that appeared in the book on paper and I did some sketches that I saved in a box with all my drawings and paintings for many years.

It was not until Peter Jackson filmed LOTR that I rescued my old sketches and decided to work on them. At the same time I bought a PC and then I discovered some programmes that allowed me to paint digitally. I considered them as a new artistic technique that I had to study and practice, a new challenge, and I liked it.

So I started to illustrate LOTR. I tried to be faithful to Tolkien’s book, however my imagination and the influence -up to a point- of the films, are the cause of my drawings being not so faithful to the book after all.