Tutorial notes + American Gods

The main takeaway of my tutorial on Friday was to focus on making the outcomes for my book. My plan is to make six illustrations of Norse Gods reimagined in modern media, similar to this Folio Society edition of Neil Gaiman's American Gods.

I really enjoy this direction, especially because we just learned how to make books and I really enjoy that physical process.
American Gods has similar themes to what I've been researching so far, being centred on a story of gods who only exist because people believe in them, and how their powers have declined with the lack of modern belief systems and America's rising obsession with media, celebrity, technology and drugs. The book is full of characters and archetypes that represent a lot of different religions and factions of American society, and its something I've really enjoyed reading into.

I've decided to focus my own project on the Norse gods specifically, but in the future I'd really enjoy researching further into this kind of representation of different religions and gods and idols that characterise them.