The idea for the G1ittersnake story came to me while
I was working on a mural illustrating JR R Tolkien’s
The Lord of the Rings. The G1ittersnake first appeared
as the letter ‘s’ in An African A1phabet, and as the idea
developed from a short story into a longer story I thought
of illustrating it with drawings in sand. The sketches
below are studies for the sand drawings, photographed
and embellished in Adobe Photoshop.