@Arthur-Campling
Thanks for the detailed response! I love my pencil sketches but they lose their “life” when I redraw over them in procreate. I’ll be rethinking my process.

@jenn thank you, this is great!!

@Chantal-Goetheer Ooh these are really cool. Thank you!

Welcome Kaylee, Glad to meet you

I just added to my wish list - Creative illustration by Andrew Loomis. Just by flipping through it you can see that it gets so deep into composition like no other book I ever seen. Also, there is a free scan on the web, poor scan, but legal 🙂

Also do you have some favourite reference books? For example I just bought "Racinet: Complete Costume History" for references on historical clothing. Since it was really hard to google some good 12th century clothing references and be sure it is somewhat accurate.

Another artist/writer to check out is Craig Thompson the author of Habibi and Blankets. Amazing work!