Bilbo Baggins!! I'm not trying to rob you!!

There's some news on the horizon, folks. I'm starting something on Youtube and I think that it will be an interesting experience. In the meantime, here are some actually new drawings. Now, I've recently watched the Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and I've read the book as well (which is a really good read) and I've been in a Hobbit-y mood so I've been drawing various scenes from the Hobbit and the various characters from the book.

This one is the first drawing I've ever draw of Bilbo Baggins. This was almost entirely inspired by the movie with Martin Freeman's portrayl of Mr. Baggins.

This was entirely inspired by my own version of Bilbo that developed as I read the book itself. This was inspired by the scene when Biblo was sneaking through the forest towards the three trolls. Now this version might upset almost every hard core Tolkien fan, but this version seems to make sense to me. Bilbo was a character that would have packed his entire home and taken it with him on the journey, if he could. So I think that he would have looked like a bit of a posh British adventure and pseudo-huntsman, so Bilbo decides to adorn an Inverness cape and his best scarf and just looks like a bit of a well-dressed country Squire. Again, it only seems to make sense to me, but I enjoyed drawing him all the same.

Anyways, I'm very excited about the new things that are about to happen with Youtube and I will hopefully find more time to put some more doodles up here, soon. Right-o, hope you folks are well.

Cheers,

A. Taylor

Notes: the first and second Bilbos were drawn with waterproof ink and the second Bilbo was detailed with just a regular pencil. Still thinking about watercoloring them.

Hiya Folks!

I've been thinking about some things, lately, some new projects to do, more specifically. I think that, since it is a relatively new year, it's time to do something a bit different. For now, just keep tuning in for some updates.

Cheers,

A. Taylor

Happy Birthday, Norman!

Hope it's a good 119th, Good Sir, you are deeply missed.

Cheers,

A. Taylor

The Adventures of Hergé

Here's a new drawing that I did to accompany an article about another one of my favorite artists, Herge' (that's the closest thing to an accent that I can create on here). If you would like to read the article about him click:

here

Cheers,

A. Taylor

Thanks to Nina Cunningham & Sharon Gerow for their immeasurable help.

Notes: the first drawing was inspired by a cartoon that Herge' drew of himself when his career was still blooming and the latter picture was copied from a photo of him in the later part of his career. Both were drawn with waterproof ink (including signature) and painted with watercolors.

HUZZAH!!

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Technology is finally starting to work in my favor, I'm finally able to post some pictures up here on the blog.

Anyways, with that little bit of relief out of the way, now I can explain some of the new pictures up here. These little paintings were done for a contest in which various artists were called upon to draw up some nymphs and I found out that one of the judges for this particular contest is one of my heroes, TONY DITERLIZZI! I could not resist, so I came up with these little cartoons. 

This particular picture is entitled "Sir Orpheus & The Nymphs," and it is my favorite out of the three of them, honestly. I think that it is because the rather melancholy knight was my favorite thing to draw and paint. This was drawn with waterproof ink and painted with Reeves watercolor paint and Prismacolor watercolor pencils. Some of the bark on the tree to the right and the grass was colored out with Sharpie markers.

This particular one is entitled "I Spy With My Little Eye," just because they all seemed to be playing I Spy to me, but that's just me. This one was drawn and painted in the same medium as the first.

As you keen readers will have noticed, the first picture and the second, that the signature is backwards. The reason behind that is that my trusty scanner malfunctioned on me (do you sense a pattern with me and technology), so I had to improvise and use my webcam to take quick shots of the pictures.

This one was entitled "The Trickster & The Queen," and this was definitely inspired by W. W. Denslow's illustrations for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, particularly with the guards at either side of the Queen with the hydrangeas at the end of their rifles. They were my favorite parts of this picture. Done with the same medium as the previous pieces.

Now the results for the contest will be presented the 28th of this month (less than a week away), and, in the meantime you folks can see the other artists' submissions (which are far, far, FAR more impressive than my meager efforts) and you can merely click here.

Hope this spring of luck continues,

Cheers,

A. Taylor

Nymph Contest 2013

There have still been some technological difficulties with uploading pictures onto the blog, but, in the meantime, I've been working on some new pictures for a contest. The contest consisted of drawing nymphs (either forest, mountain, or water nymphs, I think that those are the types) and I submitted 3 today and you can see them on the facebook page. Hope that these problems with the blog get fixed soon, but I'll still be posting things on the facebook page so that you'll see some actual proof of progress.

Cheers,

A. Taylor

TALLY HO!!!

I've been having some new ideas in the works, and some new articles in the works for the Athens Art Blog. Perhaps doing some new expanding to different areas of the great web of the aether (?). If you would like to be up to date with the new stuff going on here, just go to the facebook page for this blog by clicking the link entitled TO THE AETHER! located to the right, listed under the pages. Be sure to give an enthusiastic thumbs up on the facebook page by "liking" it.

Thanks & Cheers,

A. Taylor

Here's Some (Hopefully) Good News

Due to recent events, I've been trying to weave my way through the various webs of the Ether-net so that I can have some new pictures to present to you folks. What I'm going to do is give the facebook page a second try, see if anything beneficial comes from it. In the meantime, I'll just be posting up pictures and drawings there, for now, until this (annoying) technical difficulty blows over.

You can just meander on over to the facebook page by clicking

here

Right-o, fingers crossed.

Cheers,

A. Taylor

Well, This is Interesting....

Right-o, folks, still having some difficulties with my blog (at least with the posting picture part of this blog), so I will be trying to find some form of alternative to post pictures. Trust me, it will be some time soon, I hope.

Huzzah for Procrastination!

Well, I did have a cartoon for the new year, but, due to some really frustrating technical difficulties, I am not able to post it onto this blog. Sorry about that, but maybe it will be up here eventually.

Also, about the 12 days of Christmas thing that I said that I was going to do before the year was out: it is still in the works and will be posted as a separate page so that you folks can take a gander at it when you find the time.

Sorry, again, about the frustrating technology,

Cheers,

A. Taylor

P.S. Hope you kind readers have a great New Year!