However, he did paint impressive covers for two paperback volumes of Robert Silverberg's collected stories, Pluto in the Morning Light (coll 1992) and The Secret Sharer (coll 1993), interestingly juxtaposing imagery from sf and fantasy and suggesting that he might have enjoyed equal success had he specialized in sf. Outside of his Tolkien-related work, Howe has done other book covers, almost exclusively for works of Fantasy, including books by Robin Hobb, Guy Gavriel Kay, and David A Gemmell. Tolkiens most famous creation, with lavish art showing the many locations and characters the author described in his classic novels, along with notes on their importance to the world.A Middle-earth Traveler is an illustrated guide to J.R.R. His Tolkien artwork is not unlike that of his most famous predecessor, the Brothers Hildebrandt, though he is noted for his obsessive attention to detail in rendering medieval weaponry, contributing to the generally darker and more mature ambience of his paintings. A Middle-earth Traveler is an illustrated guide to J.R.R. In 1997, when Peter Jackson began working on his three-part film version of The Lord of the Rings ( 1954-1955 3vols), Howe was hired to serve as the films' conceptual designer, also working as a carpenter on the films he is now performing similar duties for Jackson's upcoming film trilogy based on The Hobbit ( 1).
Admiring his approach to Tolkien, publishers then assigned Howe to illustrate books by Tolkien, as well as four additional Tolkien calendars (in 1991, 1995, 1997, and 2001). He took on a variety of projects, but an invitation to join other artists in contributing to the 19 J R R Tolkien calendars changed his life. After formal training in France, he moved to Switzerland to work on an animated film and decided to remain there.
(1957- ) Canadian artist, now a resident of Switzerland.
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