This was my first attempt—though not my last—to explore the world of the medieval bestiary.

I have always been fascinated by those old books filled with extraordinary creatures, where illustrators often had to draw animals they had never actually seen, relying only on descriptions from travelers and "eyewitnesses." I tried to imagine what it must have felt like to be one of those artists and approached this calendar from the same perspective.

Before beginning the illustrations, I spent a great deal of time studying medieval bestiaries, old books, and digital archives, filling sketchbooks with ideas and experiments. The final illustrations, however, were created digitally.

This is, of course, a very personal interpretation of the genre. Alongside legendary creatures such as the basilisk, I deliberately included birds like ravens and owls, blurring the boundary between mythology and the natural world. To me, both belong equally to the landscape of human imagination.