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Great Expectations: A Cultural Life

This was a lovely project, doing a traditional illustration based on Great Expectations for the cover of a book by Mary Hammond. The illustration needed to be black and white, but beyond that I had fairly free reign. I decided to go for a hand-inked aesthetic, which I achieved by physically inking multiple layers, and then compositing them in photoshop. I was initially commissioned by Mary for the cover, but the publishers loved the illustration so much they requested to use it on the cover of their 2015 catalogue.
rough concepts, created digitally
Great Expectations: A Cultural Life
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Great Expectations: A Cultural Life

An illustrated book cover for Mary Hammond/Ashgate Publishing

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