John Howe
John Howe
John Howeis a Canadian book illustrator, living in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. One year after graduating from high school, he studied in a college in Strasbourg, France, then at the École des Arts Décoratifs...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth21 August 1957
CountryCanada
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Drawing must seek interest, not admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.
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But the more you get into this, the more ominous you see it.
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Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
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Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.
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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.
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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.
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I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.
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Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.
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I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.
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All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel a little like a Hobbit who glimpses colourful strangers passing but has never left the Shire.
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What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.
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Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.
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Tho none ought to conclude that their day or season of grace is quite expired, yet they ought to deeply apprehend the danger, lest it should expire before their necessary work be done and their peace made. For tho it can be of no use for them to know the former, and therefore they have no means appointed them by which to know it, 'tis of great use to apprehend the latter; and they have sufficient ground for the apprehension.