In The Cold Depths Of Russia’s Northeastern Chukotka Region, Magadan-based Photographer Ivan Kislov

Today I felt like sketching out my World of Warcraft character Jokro, a Troll outlaw rogue! Next step, touch up and then inking...

Illustrated Story

I’m working on a special project over the next three months. I’ll be turning a short story of mine into an illustrated novella.

My goal is to combine my talents in illustration, writing, and design to create an expressive reading experience. I want there to be unity between art and text. 

The main challenge will be to make the artwork useful for storytelling and to make it subdued enough to direct the reader's eyes around the page while minimizing distraction or interrupting their reading flow.

Here are a couple examples, with very different styles. 

I’ll be exploring the artistic direction and the story more in my next post.

Book Cover Challenge

My goal is to make ten unique book covers over the next few months using a variety of techniques. Here’s some of the elements and styles I want to cover (no pun intended).

Symbolism

The Children’s Home is a book a modern day fairy tale involving disfigured boy and and the mysterious, magical events that happen as more children join him in his sprawling estate. This cover does a great job showing the magic of the story and piquing the readers’ interest.

Typography

Being creative with typography can sometimes be a challenge for me. I want to exercise my typographic muscles by doing a few covers that focus on hand-drawn or modified type.

Retro/Vintage

I love vintage sci-fi book covers. Some of them, like this vintage Isaac Asimov book, have a timeless style that I’d like to capture.

Fun Photoshop

Using photo editing to create a strange and wonderful cover like this one of Han Kang’s The Vegetarian that captures the essence of the story.

ODESZA - Higher Ground (feat. Naomi Wild) (Live on KEXP)

http://KEXP.ORG presents ODESZA performing "Higher Ground (feat. Naomi Wild)" live in the KEXP studio. Recorded September 8, 2017. Songs: Higher Ground (feat...

Monday morning music 

Naman Spa MIA Design Studio

All the awesome spaceships and vehicles of Star Wars in one cool graphic

via Sploid

I love this little guy!

Sleepy by Megan Lorenz

Adam Ferriss 

Artist on Tumblr

Adam Ferriss is a photographer and digital media artist based in Los Angeles, CA. In addition to his artistic practice, Adam runs the photography labs at Otis College of Art and Design. His most recent projects involve creating tri-chromatic color separation photographs and algorithmically restructuring pixel array data.

Not your average book: Visionaire. 55, Surprise

Visionaire. 55, Surprise, New York, NY: Visionaire Pub., c2008.

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