.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

[sage]

These are both gorgeous beyond words. *stares and stares*

I think I love the second, especially, because I've always had a thing for impressionism and forms of art that rely on alternate usages of other media (a million tiny images put together to form a giant image, etc.). And I'm really hardpressed to love these more than I already do.

Oh! And also! Your use of color (so subtle, but so compelling) is fabulous. What a wonderful eye you have!

*adores adoringly*

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!!!

I used to do simple pen pointillism on actual paper with actual pen... The "Rebuilding Babel" cover is sort of the mouse-and-Photoshop version :D