On looking at what Ive done so far, Ben recommended to look at an illustrator called Moebius, whose work I didn't realise I had already looked at a bit last year in visual language. I really love his work because it is all set in these vast sprawling expanses of locations but at the same time they are still very focused on a small character that brings the scene to life. This is an idea I'm loving at the moment as Shakespeare has this slew of plays set all over the world in Italian cities and magical forests and the Scottish moors, but what connects all these things in my mind and drives my interest in them is the characters that populate them. I really love his use of muted colours contrasted with spots of vibrancy, each use really helps highlight the driving force of the image and the nature of each little character. Compositionally, each illustration has a grand sense of scale, which is something I want to be able to utilise in my own work, as I find my work can sometimes be too flat and vignette-ish to be that interesting. 
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