Welcome to Trollwind.com
Still very much a work in progress, but I'm actually working on it again. Right now there's just the journal and my design portfolio that are live. Note - I'm working on putting up a library page in the next couple of weeks, describing the books I'm reading and studying.
- Matthew Ashcraft
Some sample drawings
February 4th, 2010 by Matthew
I’ve been playing around with some character drawings for an upcoming project. Here are some preliminary sketches of one of the main characters.
Recent Posts
- Scaring up an Illustration ( October 13, 2009 )
- Vintage Masters of Horror ( October 6, 2009 )
- Month of Spirits ( October 2, 2009 )
- Aegir and selective mythology ( July 10, 2009 )
- Haunted by guilt ( June 28, 2009 )
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What I'm reading
Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories by M. R. James
Collection of M.R. James' ghost stories. His approach to the genre is that of a scholar and antiquarian, giving these stories the ability to suspend disbelief in the reader without necessarily overpowering them with emotion.
What I'm Studying
Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft goes through the history and evolution of the horror genre from early myth to the Gothic romances to the weird fiction that was becoming more and more popular in his day.
Recent reads
Beowulf and Grendel by John Grigsby
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
Latro in the Mist by Gene Wolfe