Sir John Tenniel was a world-famous English illustrator who lived between the years of 1820 and 1914. He was a very well known political cartoonist for the magazine Punch but most well known for his illustrations for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, which are considered to be his finest and most enduring achievement.
Tenniel's illustrations were a world of unusual looking faces, un-life like proportions and darker shades of ink sketching for tone and detail. After receiving precise instructions as to his vision of Alice, he drew several pictures of “Alice” entirely out of proportion – head decidedly too large and feet decidedly too small in finally creating the final character we see in the final publish.
The illustrations for the 'Alice' books were engraved onto blocks of wood, to be printed in the wood engraving process (where ink is applied to the face of the block and printed by using relatively low pressure).
His illustrations were used as a reference for the costumes in Disney's Alice in Wonderland, and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland with every other form of media taking bits and pieces of Tenniel’s visuals placing the “o, d, d” in Wonderland.
Personally, what I enjoy about the work of Tenniel is that every source of Alice In Wonderland in the present works off of his initial vision for the story. I would like to develop my ideas also influenced by his work because of its instant impact to the viewer; it’s just very iconic and different. Moreover I quite like the black and white sketching; using his original feel as much as the most recent versions of Carroll’s story would be a lot more loyal to the books publish birth.
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