"Last Look Behind Her" - ink & watercolor drawing

 

 

I think I got this image from google images years ago... put it on a postcard at someone's urging. Was my best selling item at comic cons way back when. 

Morgoth Bauglir drawing, Christopher Tolkien, Rings of Power, Telchar & Angrist

"Morgoth Bauglir"

 "That crown he never took from his head, though its weight became a deadly weariness."

-          The Simarillion, Of the Flight of the Noldor

 An ink drawing illustration for the "Wars of Beleriand" game.

Telchar’s notorious knife Angrist broke when Beren tried to take a second gem from the Iron Crown. What can one say about a blade that wounds the King of the World? Is there another?

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The Silmarillion is one of my favorite books. Few works of fantasy literature can compare in terms of epic scope and completeness of vision. I think it's safe to say it's as much Christopher Tolkien's as it is his father's: a beautiful collaborative effort, a true labor of love.

Recently, there's been yet a new generation of Tolkien fans brought into the fold, for good or ill, by the Rings of Power series. I admit I haven't seen any of it and I can't say I've heard good things. No need to go into all that, but we know how Tolkien felt about a great many things and what he thought and I know he wouldn't have been particularly pleased with how his creations have been treated by media these latter years. Telling that these projects were only greenlit after Christopher's death...

 

 

Nate Dray Paints, Illustration and description of an Ohio canal pond, "An Old Frozen Level"

"An Old Frozen Level"

Colored drawing on paper on cardboard.

Also called a canal pond or in Great Britain, a reach.

 

Nate Dray Illustration: "The ALBUM Psi-Witch"

 The ALBUM "Psi-Witch" 

by me for ALBUM

Nate Dray paints: "The American Schematic" an abstract design by artist Nate Dray

 "The American Schematic"

watercolor, ink & gouache on paper, 15 x 20 inches

"One of the Watcherwoman's Clock-Trees" ink illustration by Nate Dray

"One of the Watcherwoman's Clock-Trees"

ink on paper

Illustration of a type of tree found in Lev Grossman's book series "The Magicians."

"Just Outside Town"

"Epic Earth Comics Online or I ain't Gonna Make Weird Comics No More"

 "Epic Earth Comics Online or I ain't Gonna Make Weird Comics No More"

 

Nate Dray's Epic Earth Comics, Diluvian Enterprises #005

New comic for August, 2015. Debuting at Steel City Con, with cartoons from Nate Dray, Robbie Vegas and Doc Springer. 

New maps drawn by Nate Dray for "There and Back Again" from West Coast Games

In 1977 a company called West Coast Games published a small run of a solitaire adventure board game based on “The Hobbit” called “There and Back Again,” designed by John Williams. It is rare, ugly and unlicensed.  I really like it.

(These two images are from boardgamegeek.com.)

Even though the map isn’t used much in the game - I redrew it.
Trying to capture an early 80’s Avalon Hill - Dragon Pass- sort of feel - and just doodling.

- Nate Dray

For more info on this game check out the Board Game Geek entry:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6833/there-and-back-again

For more on on Tolkien board games see these sites:
http://www.freewebs.com/tolkienboardgamecollecting/
http://www.boardgame.de/tolkien.htm

Epic Earth Adventures: Epic Earth #2 by Nate Dray - Diluvian Enterprises, ISBN: 9780982289211

This is the latest comic.  

Latest comic in the Epic Earth comic book series by artist and cartoonist Nate Dray from Diluvian Enterprises.

This issue centers around paleobiologist Sherman Marsh's attempts to recover a missing time probe in the swamps of the Carboniferous epoch. Also includes several short bits: a Winston Churchill cartoon, Sir Camel-Trot and the Pugilistic Princess, and gonzo anthropologist William. S. Carlson returns.

"Into the Weird Wood" - ink & watercolor by Nate Dray

"Into the Weird Wood"
- ink & watercolor by Nate Dray

Epic Earth Eisode One by Nate Dray from Diluvian Enterprises, ISBN: 9780982289204

 

 

Epic Earth Episode One, published June 2009 by Diluvian Enterprises 

from artist and cartoonist Nate Dray.

ISBN: 9780982289204 

"The bushes are filled with strange things." - Juan Matus

"The bushes are filled with strange things." - Juan Matus