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Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.
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Drawing
Meditation
Paper
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Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.
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Bridges
Dragons
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Fantasy
Tales
Fairy Tales
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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
Draws
Interesting
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Drawing must seek interest, not admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.
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Admiration
Drawing
Seek
Quickly
Wears
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Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.
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Admiration
Drawing
Interest
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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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Animated
Film
Switzerland
Feature
Feature Film
Initially
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Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
John Howe / Illustrator
Character
Draws
Honor
Moving
Patronage
Support
Wealth
Opens
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I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.
John Howe / Illustrator
Book
Illustrating
Illustration
Long
Profession
Tolkien
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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.
John Howe / Illustrator
Dread
Folly
Regard
Throwing
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God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith while your physical muscles begin to atrophy.
John Howe / Illustrator
Exercise
Love You
Suffering
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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.
John Howe / Illustrator
Ideas
Numbers
Projects
Years
Authors
Work Sometimes Ideas
Eager
Number
Illustrate
Occasionally
Published
Sketches
Unexpectedly
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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.
John Howe / Illustrator
Art
Architecture
Europe
Information
Inspiration
Legends
Western
Western Culture
Art History Culture
Everywhere
Enduring
Illustrator
Myths
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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.
John Howe / Illustrator
Opportunity
Interesting
Offering
Website
Writing
Little
Fairly
Quite
Useful
Portfolio
Complete
On-Line
Well
Tool
Unexpectedly
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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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Book
Fans
Glimpse
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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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Looks
Mind
States
Archetypes
Describe
Elves
However
Minds
Pressed
Recall
Summoned
Tolkien
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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.
John Howe / Illustrator
Art
Art School
College
Following
France
Glimpse
Real
School
Arts
Bit
Year
French
Enrolled
Spend
Initial
Learn
Plan
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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.
John Howe / Illustrator
Art
France
Overwhelming
School
Thinking
Extremely
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