"The Captain Of Despair"

"The Captain of Despair"

2022

"...but it was not by numbers that we were defeated. A power was there that we have not felt before. Some said that it could be seen, like a great black horseman, a dark shadow under the moon."

-"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", by J.R.R. Tolkien

I had wanted to illustrate this scene for a while: the Witch-king's assault on Osgiliath that opened the War of the Ring and that enabled the Nazgûl passage across the river to start their search for the One Ring.

"World Leopard Day"

2022

Leopard (Panthera pardus)

I've always found leopards to be underrated. They may not be the biggest, or the most imposing, but they may be the most elegant, and they certainly are the most adaptable of the big cats. 

"Éowyn"

2022

"All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Eorl, and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death."

-"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", by J.R.R. Tolkien

"Colors of the Rainbow"

2022

Blue-and-Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna) and Red-and-Green Macaw (Ara chloropterus)

"The Barrow-wight"

2022

"Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead. In the black wind the stars shall die, and still on gold here let them lie, till the dark lord lifts his hand over dead sea and withered land."

-"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", by J.R.R. Tolkien

"Spring Boy"

2022

Referenced from @whoseman_one on Instagram.