I think it’s a possibility that the people who drew these creatures made their faces look weirdly human out of habit, of drawing what they know. On the other hand, people had had many generations of drawing humans. Nowadays we can take photographs and capture what the face of an animal looks like quite simply, but people would have had to work from their imagination in those days as I’m sure they were not able to observe and study wild animals for very long because they would move too quickly. I found that the creatures have oddly human faces, which leads me to think maybe the artists had not developed the skill to draw animals in the middle ages. I think these creatures were probably the mythical creatures who came up in the story,or they could be the artist’s interpretation of how they saw real animals. Some more detailed letters would contain odd looking creatures whos bodies would be entwined with the pattern of the letter. The first letter of the chapter would be dectorated with patterns and swirls to highlight the beginning of the story. People would create intricate lettering like this to include in books about myths and historical stories. It often came up that this kind of typography was used in the middle ages, during which was the beginning of the reneissance and the age of discovery. During the process of creating this Celtic style letter J, I researched the use of medieval fonts in history.