Congrats to author Thomas L. Martin whose "A Silver Cord" novel is released today. Here are the concept sketches for the cover art. I worked with more stylization both at the beginning and final execution. As always, I am chasing after the energy of the sketch when I do the polished rendering. It can be a challenge to maintain it, but I am learning the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" approach.

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A little photo session fun with Freyja (cat) and Sharon, The Bookbinder's Apprentice!

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A dateless bullet journal bound with hand-pulled paste paper.

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Sharon Smith, the Bookbinder's Apprentice here at BOOKFORGE, has completed her first Drumleaf (photobook) style binding using her hand-pulled decorative paste paper from a previous exercise.

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Sharon Smith, the Bookbinder's Apprentice here at BOOKFORGE, has completed her first Drumleaf (photobook) style binding using her hand-pulled decorative paste paper from a previous exercise.

#bookbinder #apprentice #bookbindersapprentice #BOOKFORGE #bookart #bookarts #bookartist #bookbinding #drumleaf
This is a book I made during the pandemic curfew. It is shaped like an accordeon, and by folding it, you can actually combine different pages together to create different images/narratives, than just the linear one.
Every page is designed to fit with all the other the pages.

I have always been interested in the book as object and the correspondence between visual and writing (I did a thesis on the topic ten years ago), and this was my first (interesting) attempt in using my drawing as main media in a book instead of writing.

I loved making this so much, that since I only want to draw books. Right now I am working on a Graphic novel.

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This is a book I made during the pandemic curfew. It is shaped like an accordeon, and by folding it, you can actually combine different pages together to create different images/narratives, than just the linear one.
Every page is designed to fit with all the other the pages.

I have always been interested in the book as object and the correspondence between visual and writing (I did a thesis on the topic ten years ago), and this was my first (interesting) attempt in using my drawing as main media in a book instead of writing.

I loved making this so much, that since I only want to draw books. Right now I am working on a Graphic novel.

#art #bookartist #bookart #drawing #inkdrawing #bookasobject
I'd like to explore the magical aspects of the Yao lore. Witches and wizards. I started working on this last night, to see how our character may look and feel in such a world. It remains to be seen. All I know is there's going to be a lot of magic. #visdev #characterdesign #visualdevelopment #digitalillustration #illustration #madewithwacom #clipstudiopaint #photoshop #bookillustration #bookartist #artistsonintagram #scbwiillustrators #hireanillustrator #weareillustrators