Smaug's Mountain by EricClaeys
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-- "The Hobbit" book cover illustration --
For my latest illustration/graphics assignment we are supposed to design the cover, a chapter intro (two page spread with illustration), and a poster promoting the book of our choice - mine being "The Hobbit". All of the illustrations are limited to black and white. The dwarves will wrap around the binding and fade into the summary. The only bad part is that the emphasis of this project is a quick deadline - we only have one week to complete it
I realize that Tolkien art is an extremely popular (especially recently) and often overdone theme, but I just wanted to have a little fun with one of my favorite childhood books.
Ink and Prismacolor marker
~ 4 hrs
Thanks for your comments!
Comments (11)
gallimel
awesome. JRR wasn't ever happy with others' illustrating his books but I bet he would have considered favourably this work of yours :)
Modulok
Gotta love those prisma's ;) Nice work Eric!
Rammstein1986
Hello, i really, really like your style of art i would like to be able to draw like that, i think your drawing is wonderfull and is a perfect depiction of the book, i like it alot, please keep up the good work, its a pleasure for me to look at your art.
Lechsh
Overdone or not, the tolkien theme is a good one, this a fantastic depiction. love the marker work on the mountain. I wish I knew how to use markers.
Teyon
Great work, Eric! 1,2,3...Uh...aren't there one too many dwarves? Ah well, who cares, it's a great image.
Curious
yo this is wicked stuff, great job!love the shading XD
Supafly
looks great... very cool, especially the mountain!! and teyon... i count 13 so no worries there... but where's gandalf?
A_
What a great illustration! :)
EricClaeys
Whew, I was pretty sure I got all 13 dwarves plus one hobbit/theif (avoiding any superstitious numbers). I never really considered how big of a traveling party it was until I drew it out. I'd like to have Gandalf in this image, but he's off fighting the Necromancer in this part of the story. He'll definetly be in the chapter introduction illustration though. Thanks for the comments everyone!
sonic2
Wow............just WOW............love the contrasts!
adam_v
Great Work!