.cover art: cesperanza's "Te of John"; fiercelydreamed's "Rebuilding Babel"

[aesc]

There are few pleasures in life so sublime as making art for kick-ass stories.

For cesperanza's very awesome Te of John and fiercelydreamed's also very awesome Rebuilding Babel. If you haven't read either of these yet, you really really should. I will leave it at that.






The vertical text is a selection from the Tao Te Ching, and the Chinese characters (God, I hope) are te (in red) and tao (in blue).



I've had this in my mind for ages, and it's gone through about three different drafts. I got the idea for it back during artword's Typographic Illustration challenge, and "Rebuilding Babel" seems to lend itself really well to anything having to do with broken, jumbled-up letters and words.

.extra notes: The very minimal texture work in the background comes down to two very awesome and handy stock textures by elli ♥ ♥

Comments

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

Oh, beautiful. I love the simple, clean look of the first one.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you!! "Clean" is not usually something I do :D