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Book jacket cover illustration and design- 'Orlando' by Virginia Woolf (1928).
Self-initiated project.
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Development stages of the main character illustration.
I took inspiration from a scene in the book, where Orlando is romantically smitten while skating on the frozen River Thames at the 1608 'Frost Fair'.
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Various stages in the development of the London Bridge background illustration. On the far right of the final version you can just see the heads on spikes at Traitor's Gate.