Make reference work for you! Tolkien illustration, Tolkien art

Apr 6, 2019 - Here's a little tutorial on how to make reference photos work in your art, by making them subject to the idea and an overall composition, not the other way round. Mental thumbnailing All my paintings begin with an idea of a scene I want to paint. Reference always comes in a second or even third…

Tolkien's artwork - Wikipedia

The Many Illustrations of JRR Tolkien's Works

Tolkien Bestiary: 9780517120774: Day, David: Books

Tolkien Bestiary

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Roverandom, 1925: Description of the artwork

Map of Middle-Earth Annotated by Tolkien Found in a Copy of Lord of the Rings

This drawing of Bilbo Baggins by Tolkien himself -from my copy of 1999 edition of The Hobbit! : r/lotr

Noticed a few similarities between Elden Ring and the artwork in A Tolkien Bestiary while reading the book. Not sure if this is coincidental but it would be cool if FromSoftware did

The Illustrated World Of Tolkien - By David Day (hardcover) : Target

The Pipe-Smoking World Of J.R.R. Tolkien

Tolkien's World: Paintings of Middle-Earth by J.R.R. Tolkien

Unpublished art by Lord of the Rings creator JRR Tolkien goes on show, JRR Tolkien

110 Drawings and Paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien: Of Middle-Earth and Beyond

Tolkien's Art and Politics: Is Middle-earth Real?