I wanted to only post things that were done within the last year or so, but I haven't been able to do much new art oustide of work lately. So I decided to go way back to 2001 when I painted this balrog scene as I was getting geeked up about the first Lord of the Rings movie. Of course the balrog in their movie was better, but I would have hoped it would have been. This was just for fun and I wanted to paint some LOTR fan art before the movies came out and imprinted their images into my mind. Fortunately, I like their imagery a lot.
Hey this is fabulous no matter how good the movie Balrog was. I think this is great,has more of a TSR D&D feel to it,also a touch of Brothers Hildebrandt. Cool stuff !!!!
ReplyDeleteWOW! This kicks! Very nice. Very, very nice.
ReplyDeleteThe colors and staging are awesome... and everything else about it. Very cool.
ReplyDeleteGreat colors!
ReplyDeleteExcellent work Dave, glad to see that have a blog now! Always good to have another source to draw inspiration from! I really like the depth you achieved with this one, the color scheme is really effective too. Good stuff!!!
ReplyDeleteI think you could make it better by putting a word bubble above Gandalf saying "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!"
ReplyDeleteHeya Dave! It's great to see all of you guys blogging! I love your stuff! This one in particular is great. It's fun to see an un-influenced take on the Balrog that still rocks. (and I agree with Ryan, a speech-bubble would make me laugh)
ReplyDeletewow, beautiful!!
ReplyDeleteand I love the Saruman below too!
Hey man! Wonderfull job. I love your work very much... specially these of LotR. I´m also a fan. Congrats
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