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Published: 2010-10-19 03:32:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 1910; Favourites: 49; Downloads: 4
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Gandalf (after J. Howe), Acrylic.
This painting is based on "Gandalf" created by Canadian-born artist John Howe. I love the original and I wanted to have my own version
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Does a good job of capturing Gandalf's ceaseless urgency and need to be somewhere very important, yesterday. Well done, again. My only complain is the darkness of this, but I imagine that's the photo...
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Thanks for your comment. I do find it a challenge getting accurate photos of my work, and you're correct this is darker than the actual painting.
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Well it's lovely work all the same. Check out my gallery if you wouldn't mind, and have a minute some time.
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Wow, had to get my book there to check the differences. Great copy of the work!
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Love.It. Powerful Gandalf is shown here. Very good.
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Heh, nice! That was certainly a definitive picture of Gandalf John Howe produced there!
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Howe is great, I was happy to pay tribute to him by doing this copy.
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We once got Mum an Alan Lee illustrated version of the Hobbit - and that looks great too!
I'd love to get an illustrated book of LOTR, but it's so gosh-darned expensive!
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Allan Lee has done illustrations of LofR, I got a pretty good deal on the set through amazon. Allan Lee and John Howe really get Tolkien, I'm less impressed with other Tolkien artists, especially Ted Nasmith ( I can't read a Tolkien book he's illustrated).
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I only know Lee and Howe... and that's mostly because they did the conceptual art on the movies!
Mind you, I know what you mean, though... I once found a clip of the Rankin-Bass movie of the Hobbit, where Smaug wakes up and announces, "Well, thief, I feel you and I smell your air."
I instantly X-ed out the tag, because the portrayal of Smaug was far better in the Sierra videogame! [link]
(Love that game - it's so faithful to the spirit of Tolkien, and what they take from the book they get right. Of course, there's artistic game-licence, and there are bits added in - even a few extra NPCs that help you out at some points)
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The game looks fun!
I am hopeful the movie will set a new standard for Hobbitesque art - I can't wait, and I'm thrilled Howe and Lee are the artistic sources for the films.
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Yup, it's certainly a good game. My version is on PC, and generally it's lots of fun - I just get these occasional nuisances where the game crashes for no apparent reason (usually when a cluster of "courage point" gems are released for completing a Side Quest)... or sometimes, some bug in the programming might occasional cause some gem-clusters to not be released on killing an enemy, resulting in me being short-changed by the end of a chapter (I like to get a perfect score). That tends to happen most with little spiders, if I use an upgraded jump-attack with the walking stick.
Other than that, it works great.
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