In this session we did a little bit on our essays, looking at the structure and formalities of an academic essay that we needed to follow. I took some notes of this which can be seen below. The main part was a research workshop where we visited the University library to find inspiration for our essays.
I was initially looking for books about Norse mythology but soon discovered that there were very few books about this topic in the library. There are a lot of sources about it on the online library so I looked there and made a list of possible reference for me to look at. I then chose to expand what I was looking for and try to find visual reference material rather than factual material about Norse Mythology. I started researching books that had highly detailed hatching illustrations as this is a style I’m thinking about incorporating into my project. I was able to find a couple books with this style called ‘French Rococo’ by Owen E. Holloway and ‘Doré Gallery- Academy editions’ by Denoël.
French Rococo Book Illustration – Owen E. Holloway
Doré Gallery – Denoël
This session was beneficial in getting more ideas for this visual style of my Norse Mythology project. Initially the library search was frustrating as I was just looking for sources on Norse mythology and couldn’t find any but when I broadened my search to find inspiration for the visual style it was more successful. By the end of the session I found lots of references on Norse mythology through the universities online library and a couple of books with detailed hatching illustrations that I’ll take inspiration from for my project.
Samuel Green Illustration 