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For all those who are interested, you can now watch my latest illustration, Faun Herald take shape from start to finish. Here's a teaser, the rest is available via my website. Enjoy! http://www.mike-nash.com © Mike Nash. All rights reserved. Works featured are not for reuse, reupload or resale.

Watch in fullscreen HD on Youtube A Dryad is a kind of tree spirit. Symbolic of nature, guardians of the forest and sometimes humanoid embodiments of particular types of tree. Here you can see how I slowly build the environment in a neutral brown. This will form the base on which I'll add colour in the form of flowers, grass and other details. Music - 'Emotional Strings' by Rick Clarke - Music4YourVids.co.uk Brushes & Colour Wheel - Download via my website. Double Window - Open your image in Photoshop, then click Window, Arrange, New Window. You will need to drag the windows off the bar and resize them in order to see both at the

Watch in fullscreen HD on Youtube It's about time I created some Lord of the Rings inspired art! Here is my interpretation of Smaug The Magnificent, the dragon from The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Smaug is proud, arrogant, poised and fierce, I'll continue to work on these themes as the painting progresses. I imagine I'll develop the image into Smaug lounging upon his mound of gold within the depths of the Dwarven stronghold. Music - 'The Drums of War', 'Heading for the Battle', 'Run for your Life' - Rick Clarke - Music4YourVids.co.uk Brushes & Colour Wheel - Visit www.mike-nash.com and look in the Tools section. Double Window - Open your&#6