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Bilbo and Smaug Bookmark 2

Saturday, May 11th, 2013

Bilbo and Smaug Bookmark 2 by Amy Crook

Bilbo and Smaug Bookmark 2 by Amy Crook

Here, there be dragons! Well, dragon. Well, Smaug.

After I sold the first Bilbo & Smaug bookmark, I drew up a second one for someone else who’d asked after it. I went a little more elaborate on this one, intending to use it for promo bookmarks, just like yesterday’s Spock. It’s still sketchy and whimsical, but with more elaborate coloring and a bit of gold to go with the big purple dragon.

If you’d like a bookmark of your own, there’s still a few left from prior Bookmark Weeks!

Bilbo and Smaug Bookmark 2, 7″x2.5″ pen & ink and Copic marker, nfs (sold).

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Tea With Dori

Thursday, April 25th, 2013

Tea With Dori, fan art for The Hobbit by Amy Crook

Tea With Dori, fan art for The Hobbit by Amy Crook

It’s another dwarf! Yes, I have every intention of drawing all 13 of them, eventually. Dori took approximately forever with his fancy hair and beard and all that, but I’m happy with the results. And of course, there’s a doily.

Tea With Dori, 5″x7″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper.

Tea With Dori, detail, by Amy Crook

Tea With Dori, detail, by Amy Crook

Above, you can see the ridiculously complex hair & beard stylings of Dori the dwarf. Below, he’s hanging out in a frame, waiting to come home and share tea with you.

Tea With Dori, framed art by Amy Crook

Tea With Dori, framed art by Amy Crook

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Tea at Bag End

Monday, March 25th, 2013

Tea at Bag End, The Hobbit fan art by Amy Crook

Tea at Bag End, The Hobbit fan art by Amy Crook

After I drew Second Breakfast and sold the original, I was very sad for the empty spot on my wheat-yellow wall he had once occupied. So, I drew a Bilbo of my very own! He’s having a lovely tea at home in his dressing gown. Bilbo’s very glad to be back in the Shire where a hobbit can get six proper meals a day and enjoy a proper cuppa in comfort.

I’m considering making prints or blank cards, I haven’t decided yet, but his original art is staying here with me.

Tea at Bag End, 5″x7″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper, nfs (in the collection of the artist).

Reaching Out, Tea at Bag End, and Skull Paper by Amy Crook, framed and displayed

Reaching Out, Tea at Bag End, and Skull Paper by Amy Crook,
displayed with various duckies and Endless

Above, you can see Reaching Out and Tea at Bag End in their permanent homes, and Skull Paper (which will post later this week) hanging out with them so I can enjoy it while I still have it.

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Oin Birthday

Thursday, March 21st, 2013

Oin Birthday cartoon by Amy Crook

“Don’t get your beard in a twist.
It’s just another birthday.”
Oin Birthday cartoon by Amy Crook

There’s something really fun about drawing parody dwarves, especially knowing there’s 13 of them to draw. Oin, brother of Gloin, is a rather old and cranky dwarf and a bit hard of hearing. He’s got a couple of hundred years on you and is therefore completely unimpressed with your angst about that big birthday milestone.

I made this for sort of an anti-over-the-hill card, because sometimes I get tired of hearing people worrying about turning 30, 40, 50, or whatever. Also, grumpy dwarf. Okay, mostly for the grumpy dwarf.

Oin Birthday, 5″x7″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper, nfs (sold), but you can get him on a card in my Etsy shop.

Oin Birthday card by Amy Crook on Etsy

Oin Birthday card by Amy Crook on Etsy

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No One Fights Like Thorin

Monday, March 11th, 2013

No One Fights Like Thorin,
a Hobbit/Beauty and the Beast parody cartoon by Amy Crook

I’m not sure at what point I equated the dwarves’ invasion of Bag End with Gaston’s proposal to Belle, muddy boots and all, but this is the result. This, and having that song about Gaston in my head for days, that is.

I used google to find a good image of Gaston with his boots up. Poor Bilbo, he looks as dismayed about Great-Grandmother Baggins’ table-runner as Belle did about her book.

Gaston proposes to Belle

Above, you can see the original scene of which mine is merely a parody. Below, you can see a totally random close-up of Thorin’s muddy boots.

“…Then goes tromping around wearing boots like Thorin!”

No One Fights Like Thorin, 7″x5″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper, nfs (sold).

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Bilbo and Smaug Bookmark 1

Sunday, March 3rd, 2013

Bilbo & Smaug Bookmark 1 by Amy Crook

Bilbo & Smaug Bookmark 1 by Amy Crook

This is the other bookmark that someone already claimed, a wee tiny Hobbit looking quite distressed indeed to be confronted with a dragon. Smaug, on the other hand, looks highly amused by his discovery. I’m definitely going to do some more art for The Hobbit as well, I want to draw some dwarves.

Things will be back to normal tomorrow with another moon for Monday, so I hope you enjoyed this Bookmark Week and picked up one for yourself or a friend!

Bilbo & Smaug Bookmark 1, 7″x1.5″ pen & ink on cardstock, nfs (sold).

Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
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Storm

Monday, February 18th, 2013

Storm, Hobbit fan art by Amy Crook

“I hope the Dwarves find some shelter before those Stone Giants really get going.”
Storm, The Hobbit fan art by Amy Crook

My tiny fandom obsession continues! The mountains dried with lovely blue-violet swirls in their depths, and now there’s Gandalf, contemplating the oncoming storm as he starts to head into the Misty Mountains after Thorin et al. He’s done all in shades of grey as is appropriate, with Glamdring at his side and his staff in hand. Plus the pointy hat, of course.

Storm, 6″x6″ Japanese watercolor on Fluid watercolor paper.

Storm, detail, by Amy Crook

Storm, detail, by Amy Crook

Above, you can see a close-up of Gandalf with the colors tweaked to help bring out his eyes, er, details. Below, you can see it snugly resting in an 8″x8″ frame, waiting to find a new home.

Storm, framed art by Amy Crook

Storm, framed art by Amy Crook

Categories: Daily Art, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange
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