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Tolkien's illustrations contributed to the effectiveness of his writings, though much of his oeuvre remained unpublished in his lifetime. However, the first British edition of The Hobbit in 1937 was published with ten of his black-and-white drawings. [1] In addition, it had as its frontispiece Tolkien's drawing The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the-Water.
Line art or line drawing is any image that consists of distinct straight lines or curved lines placed against a background (usually plain). Two-dimensional or three-dimensional objects are often represented through shade (darkness) or hue . Line art can use lines of different colors, although line art is usually monochromatic.
Al Hirschfeld was born in 1903 in a two-story duplex apartment at 1313 Carr Street in St. Louis, Missouri to Russian Jewish parents. [2] [3] He moved with his family to New York City in 1915, [4] where he received art training at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design.
Contour drawing – Chiaroscuro – using strong contrasts between light and dark to achieve a sense of volume in modeling three-dimensional objects such as the human body. Gesture Drawing - loose drawing or sketching with the wrists moving, to create a sense of naturalism of the line or shape, as opposed to geometric or mechanical drawing ...
The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three - The Prisoner #1–5 Limited series November 2014 – February 2015 Adaptations of The Drawing of the Three (1987), the second installment in the series. The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three - House of Cards #1–5 Limited series May – September 2015
For example, in the show the word Christmas has been replaced with Xmas (pronounced "ex-mas"), and the word ask with aks (pronounced axe). According to David X. Cohen, it is a running joke that the French language is extinct in the Futurama universe (though the culture remains alive), much like Latin is in the present. [ 63 ]
Blackadder's Christmas Carol, a one-off episode of Blackadder, is a parody of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. It is set between Blackadder the Third (1987) and Blackadder Goes Forth (1989), and is narrated by Hugh Laurie. Produced by the BBC, it was first broadcast on BBC1 on 23 December 1988.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Christmas Island: Christmas Island is a small territory of Australia located in the Indian Ocean , 2,600 kilometres (1600 mi) north-west of Perth , Western Australia , 500 kilometres (300 mi) south of Jakarta , Indonesia , and 975 kilometres ENE of the Cocos (Keeling ...