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I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a fairly... →
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a... →
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
Drawing must seek interest, not admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.
Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has... →
Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.
I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested... →
More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look....... →
I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.
My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the... →