More exciting images emailled to me by Nemesis Now. This time some work in progress photos of a sculpture they are making from my Dragon's Lair artwork. Coooolnesss!!! I cant wait to see the painted version! ...and in case you forgot, heres what my picture looks like :) This artwork is also available now as a poster published by Reinders.
This is a new design style image I have painted called "Yin Yang Guardian", based around an oriental style dragon and the Yin Yang symbol. Many thanks to Angel Shi for providing the Chinese translation and suggesting what text to use.Chinese characters look cool and the meaning is really interesting. The ones uses here are the first sentence of a poem in the first chapter of Book of Changes(YI JING). This is a historical book considered as a foundation for all the Chinese fortune telling and FengSui. The sentences mean "Yinyang generates Taiqi". Yin and Yang are the black and white, live and death, fire and water etc, basically two opposite sides of everything. Taiqi, is the round black and white logo, and here represents everything.
I've been working on a series of aggressive style dragon paintings. I do really like the nice small friendly dragons but to mearly paint them would be to misrepresent this might beast. So I present to you Dragon Fury! (insert drum roll here) I love the film Reign of Fire and that was the inspiration behind this picture. I wanted to paint a dragon that was really massive. Having the building in this subject helps to give this sense of scale. Due to various other art deadlines I have actually been painting to on and off for a while. This can be good in some respects as it gives you a fresh look at the image each time you come back to it, but in other ways I would rather just stick with doing to one painting until its finished. Here is how it started out like in a rough value study sketch... After doing this I changed the angle of the church and dragon's legs to make it all look a bit more mighty. The more dramatic angle of the building helps to make the picture more intense. Hers's a detail of the dragon's head... I hope you like it.
Today I have been to visit Nemesis Now, who produce a range of my designs as sculpted figurines, boxes and wall hangings. They are working and large range of new products to be released at the beginning of 2010. I am really excited to be able to show you one of the new Dragon Friendship figurines, based on my Friends Forever artwork. Here is my painting... and here is the sculpture that has been done from it... Wow! how cool is that?! It is just amazing for me to see it brought to life in 3d like this. I think the sculptor has done an awesome job. I can't wait to show the whole Dragon Friendship sculpture set and other new products that they are working on.... so watch this space! :)
The festive season is fast approaching and I have updated my shop with some new Yule cards link Last year I painted 6 Yule card designs that all sold very well. However the most popular one was a design called Magical Arrival (shown above left) which featured a small dragon in a sock. Publishers, Eastgate Resource, asked if I would paint a couple more along a similar theme. How could I resit the opportunity to paint festive cute dragons? ;) You can see larger images of these new artworks along with a little explaintion by looking in the Fantasy gallery of my web site. You can also access this from the 2 links below http://www.annestokes.com/fantasy/little_helpers.htm http://www.annestokes.com/fantasy/surprise_gift.htm
In other festive related news. Cross stitch pattern manufactures Heaven and Earth have just launched a range of my art which you can see on their web site here. The first patterns include Snow Dragon and Spirit of Yule designs.
The gothic fairy from one of my paintings has been brought to life in a Ravensburger TV advert as an animated jigsaw puzzle! Here is a shot of her looking rather annoyed after being offered a cactus by a sheep. Bizarre but very, very cool!
I am currently on a train to London, then tomorrow morning I will be taking the Eurostar train to Paris to visit one of the leading French stationary manufacturers. They are going to be producing a range of back to school products featuring my art. I am delighted about this great opportunity and I am really looking forward to visiting Paris and meeting with them.
My 2010 calendar has been selling really well, in fact so well that the publishers as now sold out, and unfortunately so am I. You can still get them in various stores, and online shops. Apologies to anyone waiting to buy one from me. I am a little disappointed that they will not be easily available now, but I guess selling out by November is a sign of success and hopefully the publishers will do another calendar next year, and print more copies!
Happy Halloween! Prepartions are underway here at castle Stokes for the big night :) I was delighted to received this photo when I checked my email this morning. It is a carving on a pumpkin done by Noel Dickover and based on my Forest dragon artwork. Wow. That is one serious bit of carving! Thanks very much to pumpkin master Noel for making it. You can see more of his fantastic creations at www.FantasyPumpkins.com
The new Spiral catalogue is out containing various of my designs including this Immortal Flight hood and shirt for ladies that I am rather proud of :) Modelled here by the very loverly Elandria and photographed by Lee Sheard. A big thank you to them both for that. You can see a full version of the art here and order from Spiral here by clicking on their Anne Stokes tool bar or from EMP here and enter Immortal Flight in the search box.
Only a quarter of an hour until Halloween here in the UK! We have pumpkins, sweets, skulls ,costumes and best of all enthusiasm! ;)
I am pleased to report that Ravensburger have recently releases a series of Gothic themed puzzleballs, 4 of which feature my art. They look like an interesting puzzle product and I look forward to receiving some samples and trying to assemble one!
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