Into The Forest Darkさんのイラストまとめ

Japanese artist Masaaki Sasamoto's work is filled with the surreal and mythological iconography all bathed in gold.

“The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply, I couldn't stop myself from drawing. I drew for my own pleasure."
- Winsor McCay, who was born #OTD in 1871. A pioneer in animation & comic strips

Okay, Pevensies, you guys go on ahead and battle the White Witch. I'll just be over there having a picnic with talking animals and mythical creatures. No, I don't need to be crowned king of Narnia. I'm good here.
(illustration by Pauline Baynes)

Outside it is dreary and rainy, but I am inside and lost in Day Dreamers by @MsEmilyApple It is such a lovely book for those of us who are wakeful dreamers with "wondering, wandering" hearts. If you have not ever read this treasure of a book, I cannot recommend it enough.

Mae Besom

Shotaro Honda's illustrations for the 1938 children's book Koganemaru (こがねまる)

There are times that I feel the more people talk to me, the more I simply wished I lived in a world of talking animals instead. One cannot convince me that Mrs. Tittlemouse would not be far more pleasant company than many of the folks I meet.
(art by Beatrix Potter)

“As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.”
― Jim Henson

Edmund Dulac

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus
(art by Jessie Wilcox Smith)