John Howe

[Durin]

John Howe art

Any good links to john howes art work can be placed in here.

[Saz]

Not sure how much this site differentiates from the one above but here it is:

 John Howe gallery
It has the most well-known paintings by John Howe.

[Waelith]

Middle Earth Tours

You'll find some art from John Howe in this site. He has some truly amazing art.
I do wish I had the time to draw/paint the way he does.

[Bezerker]

go to www.lordotrings.com that has fabulous artwork in!

[EG]

John Howe has amazing artwork, I love his the most of all the Tolkien artists!

Ive got bagend, framed.... (well a print!)  I bought the pack of 6 pics .. all totally frameable... Ive just goto find room for them all somehow!

His site is brilliant, and unlike most well known people, he comes onto his forum and actually replies to people!

[Doodle]

I love the John Howe painting of "Gandalf the Istari" it's amazing and I love it!

John Howe and Alan Lee are fantastic talented artists. And I idolise them so much being an aspiring Artist myself.

[EG]

John has brought out a new book.

The Art of John Howe and its prefaced by Viggo Mortensen !


Unfortunately its only out in French at the moment, sadly ...

Thanks to Peter Jackson adding me to the formidable team he had assembled to make the movie trilogy from J.R.R. Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS, I, like all the other actors involved, was to have the rare honour of witnessing this adaptation continually go from drawing board to cinema screen. One of the key architects entrusted with bringing Peter's vision to life and giving audiences around the world the tangible, detailed representation of "Middle Earth" we have in these movies, was John Howe. He and Alan Lee, both already famous for their achievements as illustrators of many works of fiction and fantasy -- including and perhaps especially Tolkien's writing -- worked as a team, almost as one brain, to create many of the blueprints for our location and studio sets, for the story's characters and for all manner of artefacts related to it. The unshakeable foundation of the movie trilogy was always in the elaborate design of these things by John, Alan and their collaborators in New Zealand from the various departments under Jackson. No matter how many side roads the script-writers took in the months and years after cameras rolled and story-telling began in earnest in October, 1999, what had started with pencil and paper in John's and Alan's hands would always serve as our ultimate visual guide and inspiration.

When we started filming in Wellington, I knew about as much about John Howe and his work as I did about Tolkien's book -- which is to say practically nothing. In the same way that I necessarily became an ardent student of THE LORD OF THE RINGS and its sources, I, like everyone else, gladly fell into the fully-realised world imagined in John's sketches and paintings. Each line from his pencil, however faint, served as an indelible outline of the world we came to inhabit. Although I would never pretend to have become any sort of expert regarding his work or its place among that of his artistic peers, it is certain that a side of his imagination and draughtsmanship are now very familiar -- a part of me, and I a part of it.

An inkling of the symbiotic phenomenon connecting us, the places travelled by our characters, and John's eye, came when I first saw some of his drawings in progress. On an equal footing with a handful of solitary moments spent in some of Aotearoa's more unspoiled natural environments, are the memories of glimpses I was privileged to have of John Howe's work-space in the Art Department building at the Stone Street Studios in Miramar. On the second floor of a converted factory space was a modest office shared by John and Alan, his partner in dreaming and drawing Middle Earth. Although I was to take advantage of going up to see what he and Alan had been cooking up on several occasions during the long shoot, it was not long after I'd arrived in Wellington and begun playing 'Aragorn', that I got my first and perhaps most memorable look at John's work. One afternoon when most of the cast and crew were on a lunch break, I went for a walk. Hoping to see the conceptual art for the movie and learn something about what Gondor and its people would look like -- and how, among other things, they would be visually related to the Elves -- I had been directed to their office. After knocking on the door a few times and getting no response, I entered the room and found the artists were not there.

read the rest of the preface here

more oh John's work can be found on his website http://www.john-howe.com

which is just great..... really worth a look!

[EG]

John Howe has amazing artwork, I love his the most of all the Tolkien artists!

Ive got bagend, framed.... (well a print!) I bought the pack of 6 pics .. all totally frameable... Ive just goto find room for them all somehow!

His site is brilliant, and unlike most well known people, he comes onto his forum and actually replies to people!

luckily I now have them signed and framed in pride of place!

[elvina_elf]

Hi, my friend mentioned to me the other day that the publishers she works for are doing a book with John Howe, apparently it's his first practical art book. Apparently the pictures are amazing. I think it's gonna be released later this year. Any one know of any other books of his?

[EG]

looking at his website, there dont seem to be any other new books...

Id recommend tho, getting the French one.. even if you only understand some of the writing... the paintings are totally amazing!!

Cant wait to see the book you speak of!

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