Monkish Me

This one is based on an actual photograph of me. In the original I am sitting at the kitchen table piled with dishes and reading a magazine, perhaps Newsweek.  You can still vaguely see the kitchen cabinets in the background.

The House on the Cliff was a very simple sketch.

A Dark Lord on a Dark Throne, if not the Dark Lord. This was another drawing from middle school; I did not have a very clear idea of Sauron at the time. What I did have was a half-size spiral notebook that I would draw in. I was surprised years later when Greg Hildebrandt produced a painting that was eerily similar.

Eighty-Three commemorates my first drawing of 1983; the calendar is a clue, and the date is woven in runes into the tapestry om the table. How well the picture reproduces the runes or the numbers is moot.

Melichus illustrates another scene from The Face in the Frost. Prospero and Roger Bacon peer in on the evil wizard as he’s learning a powerful spell to destroy the world.

Orc Guard is just that; I would often idly draw Orcs; since they were ugly and irregular it didn’t quite matter how they turned out.

The Sword in the Stone is self-explanatory.

But the jewel of the crop has to be Troll Hut; a Troll and his Wolf wait to ambush the owner of the hut. He looks very much like a Norse Troll, or even a Drauger. I include the drawing to show all the original detail.

I meant to write more details, but I had a rough night and a pretty rough morning.