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" Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness. "
Power
Support
Character
" Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy. "
Out
Fantasy
Dragons
" Drawing must seek interest, not admiration. Because admiration wears quickly. "
Admiration
Because
Interest
" 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 complete on-line portfolio, as well as offering an opportunity to write a little. "
Opportunity
Work
Interesting
" I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession. "
Before
Since
Long
" I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since. "
Work
Been
Film
" Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture. "
Culture
Art
History
" 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 in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is. "
School
Art
History
" More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look.... as if Tolkien has summoned archetypes from so deep in our minds that we can only recall them incompletely. "
Person
Deep
Hard
" 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 outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year. "
Plan
American
School
" Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate. "
Years
You
Away
" 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. "
Folly
Dread
Away
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