9 December 2014

A little bedside reading

I'm starting to realise why designers and artists can (and should!) command a living from their skills. I really want Knights' Quest to both be completely my own creation (feedback always welcome, but I think you know what I mean), and to look good with a consistent design ethic. "I have a vision" and all that. Reconciling these two desires is proving a lot more time consuming than I thought. A lot more!

So, to keep me in the right direction I've been scavenging ideas from pinterest, increasingly esoteric Google image searches, and even looking at things in books! An almost subversively niche activity it would seem from the looks I get when I suggest reading for pleasure to some of my students. Anyway, here's the current bedside table pile. I've not (yet!) bought any reference books to help me in this project, but I do have a bestiary on my Christmas list...


The Osmiroid title on the top is proving the most useful today, containing loads of great advice and techniques for illuminating letters.

What are you reading?

Rab

7 comments:

  1. I try to avoid having more than one book "on the go" at once, but I sometimes start to accumulate a stack like that.

    I just got Ring of Steel from the local library, and it is quite daunting!

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    1. Ring of Steel? First world war military and politics, right? I can't imaging that's light reading!

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  2. I also have a couple of those! :-)

    Btw, my son and I played our first game last sunday so stay tunned for the review posted on the blog soon...

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    1. Oh cool! I shall look forward to that. I hope you enjoyed yourselves.

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