Alan Lee: Sketching Middle-Earth

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  • Alan Lee first read The Lord of the Rings when he was 17. He was immediately captured by J.R.R Tolkien's imagination.
    Decades later, he was recruited by Peter Jackson to design the sets he had pictured all those years ago.
    Watch to learn more about his captivating artistic method, and what inspired him to create such lush fantastical environments.

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  • @pspboy7
    @pspboy7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Without Alan and John, we would not really know what Middle-Earth would look like!

  • @CYON4D
    @CYON4D 6 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    I have no words to describe the feelings I am getting from this video and the works of Tolkien.
    It is just magical.

  • @XforumsurferX
    @XforumsurferX 9 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    This man has the voice of an angel and the artwork of a god. During my High School days I suffered from insomnia until one night I discovered his commentary on his art in the RotK extended edition. I got to see amazing art and listen to great commentary until eventually drifting off into a pleasant sleep and sleepwalking myself to bed.
    Good times.

    • @jjj-js8eu
      @jjj-js8eu 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Metoo

    • @NightTimeDay
      @NightTimeDay 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm glad you don't have insomnia anymore! :)

  • @WhisperAudiosASMR
    @WhisperAudiosASMR 9 ปีที่แล้ว +159

    This was amazing. I love Alan's voice, it makes me all sleepy and peaceful :)

    • @Ninjahbutter
      @Ninjahbutter 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Me too

    • @callmetlove
      @callmetlove 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I thought I was the only one!!! I adore him and his compelling voice. Currently finding more videos just go listen to him speak :)

    • @Jayberryjam
      @Jayberryjam 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I used to listen to him on the dvd extras of the movies way back before there was an asmr community. Those were the days when I thought I was the only one who enjoyed this sort of thing.

    • @slintank
      @slintank 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's brilliant, I did that too! It was so nice to discover the asmr community on TH-cam

    • @Micheley1101
      @Micheley1101 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      AMSR

  • @fairies47
    @fairies47 8 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    This great artist seems so nice, and gentle, really pleasant to listen to!

  • @davidbayaso5508
    @davidbayaso5508 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Beautiful drawing...❤❤

  • @elgriego331
    @elgriego331 7 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    This is the concept art that I miss! We have become too digital but this type of art has a "Soul".

    • @spacekitt.n
      @spacekitt.n 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      the medium is not the art. im sure there were painters that said pencil drawings have no soul, after they were invented. tired of people ripping on digital artists, who very much can put as much 'soul' into their stuff as any other medium.

    • @StrangePerson69
      @StrangePerson69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I bet the cavemen, too, complained about paintbrushes and said “it’s too complicated, it lacks soul, let’s keep fingerpainting on the cave walls”

  • @adriandelgado4579
    @adriandelgado4579 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    this video made me cry, i love him.

  • @alexnozar9497
    @alexnozar9497 9 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I love his art. I love hos voice. I love this man!

  • @ARMERZ
    @ARMERZ 8 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Such an inspiration, right now I'm on the 4th year of my architecture degree, and I'm still perplexed if this is going to be life ahead, and I always remind myself of the life I had before stepping into architecture wherein I would do fantasy stuff for I was heavily influenced by historical, fantasy, sci-fi, and RPG video games (especially LOTR I was like 5 or 6 when the movie came out) and stuff, and architecture is mostly on innovation, and the realities of this world whereas I love to day-dream, and lately I'm lost but going through the works of John Howe, and Alan Lee I think I have found a new direction if I really can't pursue an architectural career in the future, rather integrate all my learnings into what I used to do when I was a kid, illustrating the fantasies, and dreams.

    • @wiresandtrees
      @wiresandtrees 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same! I hope you are enjoying your degree still though :)

    • @lucio356
      @lucio356 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I hope your dream came true

    • @leonelperuzovic289
      @leonelperuzovic289 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Grow up

  • @katarzyna_kmiecik_art
    @katarzyna_kmiecik_art 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oh, what he's doing for a living is like a dream job! 😍

  • @tatianaabramovskaya8765
    @tatianaabramovskaya8765 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love this guy. I love his work and his personality. The first time I saw the documentary on the Lord of the Rings I fell in love with his voice. I'd put it in the evening and go to bed in a sleepy bliss, dreaming of ancient heroes and fairies.

  • @kusukuttan
    @kusukuttan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Beautiful artwork. Thank you Alan

  • @tylerharmonart7324
    @tylerharmonart7324 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So inspiring, I've always loved his illustrations!

  • @S.BYH2O
    @S.BYH2O 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Alan Lee is legend...

  • @jamlym4974
    @jamlym4974 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Out of anyone that has ever illustrated The Lord of the Rings, he is my favorite. His art has this nice soft, light look to it.

    • @GreenAshR47
      @GreenAshR47 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Odd, I find much of his work to be cold and bland. No accounting for taste I guess.

  • @silentgroyper5069
    @silentgroyper5069 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I love his design of Mordor and the Haradrim

  • @ArmLac
    @ArmLac 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Awesome!!! Very inspiring.

  • @Multimushkin
    @Multimushkin 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wonderful man

  • @ElvenartistKentrKatty
    @ElvenartistKentrKatty 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    so beautiful

  • @musang_api
    @musang_api 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Lord of the Ring, the best movie Fantasy, Collosal, and adventure.
    i think so

  • @jamiek1714
    @jamiek1714 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Alot of LOTR's beauty is directly from his art.

  • @강준혁-w7b
    @강준혁-w7b 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    it is amazing!

  • @hazmaticx1994
    @hazmaticx1994 8 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    i wanna draw fantasy now lol

    • @tav9352
      @tav9352 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thunder core
      ..

  • @deadzombies4496
    @deadzombies4496 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Inspiring.

  • @pazidawson2178
    @pazidawson2178 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    awwww!

  • @jonasvm
    @jonasvm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    does anyone know if tolkein himself illustrated gandalf?

  • @sonny凡
    @sonny凡 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    You gotta have your headphones on when you hear the drum sound at 2:20

  • @TheVampirePredator
    @TheVampirePredator 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The subs are all over the place. Goes from Japanese to Mandarin.

    • @shinjite06
      @shinjite06 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Japanese where?

  • @nalbrexon7190
    @nalbrexon7190 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Does anyone know the name of this type of drawing?

  • @madhusudana1143
    @madhusudana1143 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can any one tell me about what is the drawing paper grade and pencil grade those artist use for drawing? please

  • @peterbrown7688
    @peterbrown7688 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Chinese subtitles make this even cooler.

  • @VICENTEVENTURAvideo
    @VICENTEVENTURAvideo 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Visitad el Instagram de Ventura Punzano: instagram.com/v.punzano/ Os gustará :)

  • @Jnk-uu5uc
    @Jnk-uu5uc 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    John Howe and Ted Nasmith don’t come close to this artwork. For me, Alan’s visual interpretation IS Middle-Earth

  • @fpkblast8465
    @fpkblast8465 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Damn China is getting all the quality content

  • @akk709
    @akk709 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ASMR crack

  • @nabilriordon9436
    @nabilriordon9436 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    nabil Riordon

  • @zielona777
    @zielona777 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2:31 Putin?

  • @danielrolando8330
    @danielrolando8330 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I bet he got enough money from illustrating the movie that he can fix his teeth now!!

    • @Cereal273
      @Cereal273 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Go and leave your retarded comments on another video, troll.

    • @flamerunner5643
      @flamerunner5643 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Why does his teeth concern you? When you can look at his incredible art.

  • @madhusudana1143
    @madhusudana1143 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can any one tell me about what is the drawing paper grade and pencil grade those artist use for drawing? please

    • @maluse227
      @maluse227 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      For pencils I think he uses Staedtler Mars Lumograph drawing pencils, which are super easy to get ahold of. Not sure of the paper and not sure if you still care three years later lol.