Journal and Bestiary Research

 

As I am making a bestiary I thought it would be good to look into some bestiary's that have been made for monsters and creatures. This bestiary on Tolkien's work by David Day is one of my favorites. 

In this bestiary it is a lot less common than the others favoring  more of a book style than a journal. The illustrations are beautiful and capture the world. Another journal which was a big part of my childhood was the Field Guide from Spiderwick, the books and the film have amazing illustrations in a journal style way.

These pages use colour to their advantage keeping it very light and almost washed out colours to look like watercolor in a sketchbook which I love, I am still undecided if I will use colour in my work. Some work that I really like is by an Instagram artist who took the world of The Witcher and made a bestiary around it.

The off white colour of paper and stained paper is something I want to bring into my work, as well as the kind of medieval font used. I really like the super detailed drawing in ink as well. 

The Dark Crystal is another thing from my childhood which has a very cool bestiary about it.

The style of these drawings are amazing. The sketchy look of all the drawings really draw me in and the repeating of faces and objects is something I could use in my work.