#debora cabral

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Design inspiration  for my binding of  The fisherman’s favour  - written by Laura Simons and drawn by Débora Cabral

Just found some files I used for the fisherman’s favour and thought I’d share them to illuminate my approach on this one. It was the first and till now only time I have used a computer to make design choices (usually I just touch up the cover pictures, tweak their sizes to make them fit and that’s it)

I knew I wanted something resembling the sea and it’s depths and I knew what i wanted, but did you know those maps are called bathymetric maps or submarine contour maps? No? Me neither. Took me an embarrassing amount of time to find that out. 

Perhaps I could have drawn such a map myself, but to be honest, I don’t have much faith in my artistic skill so that was a no.

Most maps I found were either too simple or too complex though.

Or I simply found them not pleasing.  Personally I liked the idea of the sea just kind of coming in from the outside. but considering that this meant for the construction to either have a very thin front edge or a rather thin layer towards the spine I decided against it. 

Eventually I found in a topographic map with a fjord-like shape and way more layers than I felt like cutting out by hand. (I believe that grove I had from my scalpel stayed with me for the next coulpe of hours.) I intended to stick to 4 layers in the beginning but that seemed somehow very flat so I ended up with 6.

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Series of illustrations inspired by common fanfiction tropes

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Painted sky

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Illustrated quotes inspired by Terry Pratchett books

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Concept for a children’s book cover

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Illustrated quotes from Hadestown

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Illustrated quote from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

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Enjolras

Based on the painting Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog by Oscar David Friedrich