Ink scratches across paper. Faces half-formed. Flesh twisting into something not quite human. In this edition of Fantasy Artist Sketchbook, we step into the dark, raw world of Simon Fellah as featured in ImagineFX Sketchbooks Vol. 2 — a place where mutations, creature studies, and jagged environments emerge from loose graphite lines.
It’s not polished fantasy.
It’s imagination in its most primal state.
Come explore the beautifully bizarre with us.
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Within the Dark Lines
ImagineFX Sketchbooks Volume 2 is a collected volume of artist sketchbook features published by the team behind ImagineFX magazine. What we’re looking at isn’t finished illustration work. It’s process. Exploration. The raw graphite scaffolding beneath the final image.
And in Simon Fellah’s case . . . that scaffolding is deliciously & darkly fun.
Weapons ready. We step forward . . .
Closing these pages feels a bit like stepping back from a laboratory table . . . or a candlelit ritual chamber.
Simon Fellah’s sketches remind us that fantasy isn’t always shining armor and noble quests. Sometimes it’s mutation. Unexpected textures. Amalgamation. Strange silhouettes rising from the page before the artist fully understands what they are.
And there’s something freeing about that.
Because Imagination doesn’t have to be pretty to be powerful.
So next time you pick up a pencil to doodle, Arcane Adventurer, maybe it’s not supposed to be a perfect knight or castle.
Maybe you sketch something strange.
Something unfinished.
Something that may even startle you a little.
That’s where new realms begin.
Keep your Imagination strong and your Curiosity fearless!
💬 Tavern Talk
❓Any favorites among Simon Fellah’s illustrations shared here?
❓When you see raw, unfinished sketches like these, do they inspire you to draw something strange of your own?
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Amazing work. The details just pop. Thanks for sharing.