.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

[catvampcrazines.livejournal.com]

These are both just so gorgeous. I'm so struck by how serene the first one is, and the second one is amazing (not that the first isn't). Thank you for sharing them with us!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked them! :)