This month's artist spotlight is English illustrator Alan Lee. If you're a Lord of the Rings movie fan, you love Alan Lee, whether or not you know it. One of the primary set designers for the trilogy (as well as the Hobbit films currently in production), many of Lee's visualizations were incorporated directly into the movies (see the below for examples). He's published a Lord of the Rings sketchbook, and illustrated versions of the Lord of the Rings, the Welsh mythology work Mabinogion, several works (here and here) with Rosemary Sutcliff, and a book on Castles in general.
His work is fantastic. I love his depictions of fantasy worlds and towering castles. It saddens me to find that some of his illustrated editions are difficult to obtain (as you'll note if you peruse the above links); I've been looking for a Lord of the Rings Alan Lee-illustrated version for a few weeks, to no avail. If you can find his stuff, snap it up.
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