I finally took Mark's advice to look away from The Edge Chronicle series, the reason being is that the amazing illustrations of Chris Riddell have probably affected how I imagine and see the world and thus affect alot how I would build it my self. I really do love the style of the Edge-world that he portrays, its a unique dark qwirky environment. The picture above shows The Knights Academy, I didnt think about it when reading it, but re-looking at the academy illustration below it seems pretty eastern looking. At some point after the course I would love to go back and Model bits of the Edge world such as this.
There are about 3 other book series from my childhood that could be interesting to model some diaromas for, this time these books have no illustrations ( minus front covers) so that im nothing but my imagination to go of. The first is Darren Shan's Demonata Saga which I imagine would come under adventure/ horror genre, they were so good. They are mainly set in modern day our world, but there's warewolves, magicians, and demons etc. One of the frist scenes that came to mind is an opening one, in which the main character opens the his parents bedroom only to find them decapitated by demons, half the room seems to expand of into a world of cobwebs, the other is torn up with three chess tables/ sets thrown across the floor.
Actually now I think of it although I love the books and not all of the interesting environments are grusome, I think I would rather do more of a fantasy world a than horro/demonic themed one.
is the Wind on Fire Trilogy. The city in this is interesting as it's strictly class based and splite exactly into 7 rings of colour and class. The characters go on a huge journey to find an object 'the wind singer' to rid the city of evil. I remember loving these books, but I have no lasting memory of environmnets imagined from when I read it. So it's probably not wise to do these ones.
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