John Howe (born August 21, 1957) is a Canadian book illustrator, living in NeuchÃÆ' ¢ tel, Switzerland. One year after graduating from high school, he studied at a college in Strasbourg, France, then at ÃÆ' â € ° cole des arts dà ©  © coratifs in the same city.
He is famous for his work based on the world of J. R. R. Tolkien. Howe and noted artist Tolkien Alan Lee served as head of concept designer for Peter Jackson's The Trilogy The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and Howe also performed illustrations for the board of Lord of the Rings game created by Reiner Knizia. Howe also illustrated the maps of the Lord of the Rings , The Hobbit , and The Silmarillion in 1996-2003. But his work is not limited to this, and includes a mythical picture such as the Anglo Saxon legend of Beowulf (he also illustrates the game of the Knizia Beowulf: The Legend). Howe illustrates many other books, among them many belonging to the fantasy genre (Robin Hobb's books for example.) He also contributed to the adaptation of The S. C. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. In 2005 a limited edition of the novel by George R. R. Martin A Clash of Kings was released by Meisha Merlin, complete with many illustrations by Howe.
Howe has a picture card for Magic card collection: The Gathering .
For The Hobbit movie, original director Guillermo del Toro and substitute director Peter Jackson, both consulted Howe and fellow conceptual artist Alan Lee to ensure design sustainability.
Howe is a member of the living history group of Saynt George Company, and has considerable expertise in ancient and medieval weaponry and weaponry.
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Biography
John Howe was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He drew from pre-school age, with the help of his mother for his "more ambitious rendering". Around the age of primary school he finds his mother's abilities no longer meet his expectations, and even feels very frustrated at mother and herself for not being able to draw a cow for her wishes. Howe's school years were complicated by the movements that occurred with the time that made the art classes full, and left them in classes like power mechanics. He found his ability as a draftsman to be profitable in a biology class, where he and a friend would render microscopic organisms to classmates at fifty cents each. As a child, he collects the cover of a novel. The collection includes items from Frank Frazetta, Barry Smith, and Bernie Wrightson. In his teenage years, Howe reads The Lord of the Rings trilogy from J. R. R. Tolkien. He says he gets a "real spark" from the Hildebrandt calendar, which shows him that the books can be illustrated. Howe creates pictures of his own version depicted in the calendar. These images, according to Howe, may not have survived.
A year after his high school graduation, Howe found himself in Strasbourg, France attending college. The following year, he enrolled into ÃÆ'â € cole des arts dÃÆ'Â © coratifs. He quotes his experience from this period as follows:
"The first year was spent not much understanding, the second contrary to what I managed to understand, and the third was eager to get out, though in retrospect I must owe whatever clarity my thinking has to the professor's illustration of his patience."
Throughout his first years in Europe, Howe took as much as he could on the street of art, architecture and everything that was "simultaneously old and new." He says the only surviving artwork of this period is "Lieutenant Black Tower Barad-dÃÆ'» r ", a piece inspired by Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings . He said if this was not his first published work, it must have been the earliest. The first commissions of Howe included political cartoons, magazine illustrations, comics, animated films, commercials, which he said were nightmares. He says that he will repeat the sketch so many times that nothing remains of his "possession" in it. This frustrates him, and he wonders how he will succeed in his profession.
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