Welcome to new Patron, Szilvia! Great to see you again. Aaaand just in - Carin! W00t! :)
This piece, the last of the England sketches, has a nice little story to it.
I'd spent the first two days of the event not sketching at all. Usually, at any con, I will sit with my sketchbook and draw away, putting it down every now and then when I'm talking to a customer. On the first two days in Birmingham, that was not possible - there was no time at which there were no customers!
On the third, with a lot of interesting talks and panels on, there were the first lulls. I took out my sketchbook but, as happens quite often when I'm surrounded by awesome art, I was staring at my blank page. I started a sketch thee times and erased it again.
Then, in late afternoon, it was Alan Lee's talk, and I found myself dreaming up a tree that I would draw the next day.
Afterwards, I wanted to catch a talk called "Setting the Silmarillion to music" with Ted Nasmith, but it was already full; so we ended up in the bar with John Garth (yes, I'm absolutely dropping names here hahaaaaa, but I was really sitting with the two of them and talking sketchbooks), and afterwards, there was the absolutely wonderful performance of the People's Orchestra of Birmingham performing music from the Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit, Warhorse, Narnia, Game of Thrones and How to Tame your Dragon. My eyes were tired, so I closed them and refined my hypothetical tree. And that tree started to take shape, and was soon joined by another, and by a little stream, and (of course) some riders, who soon (of course) turned out to be Maedhros and Maglor riding to Mereth Aderthad. While I often plan entire paintings for several days in my head, none had ever come to me from scratch like that. It was Niggle-like. and pretty magical.
So, another one I want to finish whenever I find the time. :)
Talking T-shirts! For those of you who are interested in getting a shirt with the Tolkien silhouette on it, how important is it for you to have a choice in cuts? I had those two or even three different shapes for the Noldor T-shirts, but that was too difficult for me to keep track of. If I only offer unisex/straight cuts, would that put anyone off terribly? Let me know in the comments!
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