This Tornado Loves You, a frerard fic by the amazing @theopteryx, and one of my favourites. It's been a fun ride doing this fic, as I ended up designing and hand painting the cover paper in gouache before subsequently affixing the painted paper to the cover (prev post of the cover design). As a result it is one of the most involved covers I've done; sometimes you have a design in your brain and you gotta see her through, and I really enjoyed being able to incorporate aspects of the story by doing so into the cover. Technique wise in retrospect, thick layers of gouache are not the most ideal to use for cover designs for bookbinding as they can flake, unlike acrylic, but that's food for thought later. This book was also my first attempt at double core endband (the other books I've posted I did after the endbands for this book), but the originals (although pretty and decently done) I actually scrapped as I came up with a design that more represents the maze, compared to the previous design; it's also not the only part I've re-done, as the grave corner design I actually re-painted to better fit the other corner art pieces.
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LOOK! HOW! BEAUTIFUL! as always can't ever believe anybody would still think about these fics all this time later let alone make something like this. i'm in awe!!! i love art!!!!!!! i love people making things!!!!! look how beautiful!!!!!!!!!! !! !!!!!!














