What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.

What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.

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.

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.

Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

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.