Literary Influence

When creating my sketches, I've been reminded of the images in the start of old fantasy books, the illustrations to introduce each chapter. This influence comes from reading books such as these when I was a child, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series being a prime example of this. A lot of my fantasy inspiration I gained from family and the shows we used to watch/books we used to read.

Images like these would have been printed in the books in much the same way I wish to etch and print some of the drawings I have created. I will therefore look into printing processes to use with my sketches, which lend themselves well to this theme.

During this project I will also look at illustrators who work with fantasy novels or concept art for games and other media.