Art school finals – illustrations on Murtagh 💪🐉
The assignment was to create covers for audio tapes and, conveniently, I'd just finished reading Murtagh – a beautifully sad, torturous book. The Inheritance Cycle was a breakthrough read in my life when I first read it – it gave birth to my love for fantasy books, for writing, and in a way, for drawing, because I wanted to add creating with pictures to creating with words. So I figured illustrating a sequel to a series that changed my life so much and basically got me into art school in a way might be a good fit.
It's a linocut, and each of the five cassettes refers to the five parts that the book is divided into – Ceunon, Gil'ead, etc. I made extra use of the runes that Paolini revealed at the end of the book.
While it was a pain at times (I had to cut some things twice because something didn't work out or didn't look right) I'm glad I was able to create something for this series, hehe.
