John Howe
John Howe
John Howeis a Canadian book illustrator, living in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. One year after graduating from high school, he studied in a college in Strasbourg, France, then at the École des Arts Décoratifs...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth21 August 1957
CountryCanada
John Howe quotes about
book illustration long
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.
writing opportunity offering
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.
art school thinking
I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is.
mind looks states
More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look.... as if Tolkien has summoned archetypes from so deep in our minds that we can only recall them incompletely.
art real school
My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.
years ideas numbers
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 meditation paper
Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.
moving character support
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.