Never Stop Reading

Just watch out for trees, traffic, open manholes, etc.

Faux Book Cover 6

It's been a while since I did one of these faux book covers. This time I gave my fake author a fake name. I think I would read this book.

Lovely Little Things

Hand lettering for fun.

Miri Tee Logo

Miri Tee logo by me for Aeolidia

Here's one of the rejected roughs from the design process that didn't quite fit her business, but I still like it. It was a little too young for her business. Would have worked great for a kid's shop.

Black cat barely tolerates your existence.

Reading is out of this world

Reading! It's the hip new thing all the kids are talking about!

Brand guide for my logo

Branding guide for my own logo.

Faux Book Cover Project 5 - The Interesting Times of Lily Lee

Here's a continuation of my faux book cover project with hand lettered type.

So, apparently the whole "May you live in interesting times" Chinese curse is actually probably not really Chinese. I can still see this as a book title though.

This started out as a hot press watercolor paper test and then I thought I might as well do something with all that empty space.  The dragon and the lettering is digital.

And here it is without the lettering:

Summer Reading

What are you reading this summer? Something with unicorns I hope!

You are doing fine

A hand lettered sign for those moments when you are freaking out.

Also available as wallpaper and a printable here: http://aeolidia.com/blog/2013/05/you-are-doing-fine-free-printable-by-aeolidia/

Faux Book Cover Project - The Poison Pen

Watercolor, pen and ink and a heck of a lot of photoshopping.

Also, please ignore the fact that she has one big hand and one teeny tiny hand.  I'm going to claim that was an artistic choice.

Faux Book Cover Project Number 3 - Snow

The third installment of my fake book cover project.  I'm not bothering to make up author names and put them on the book covers; but I did leave space for it at the bottom of this one.

I think this one was heavily influenced by one of my critique group partners, the very talented A.M. Sartor, who recently completed this cover image: http://amsartor.com/30828/984501/folio1/the-phoenix-project

Basically, it's all about the hair, as usual.

Faux Book Cover 2 - Twelve Thrilling Tales of Terror

Here's the next installment of my experiment in hand drawn type and book cover illustration.

This one is watercolor and pen and ink, assembled in Photoshop.

Faux Book Cover Project - The Oni and the Fox

Well, here's something completely different from me and not really recognizable as something I'd do except for the fact that there's a fox in it.

I wanted to work on my hand-lettering skills and my book cover design skills, so I had an idea to create some fake book covers as a personal project this year. With any luck, I hope to complete at least one a month, ideally many more than that.

This one was inked with a Pentel brush pen and Micron pens, and colored digitally.  It's been a while since I inked anything; it was kind of fun. Maybe I'll have to incorporate black outlines back into my style. We'll see.

Oni, by the way, are Japanese demons. 

Recently completed project - Surly Sheep

 

I recently finished this logo design project for Surly Sheep.  This was a fun one.  And I got to do hand lettering, which is always a hoot.

Ursa Minor Coffee Logo

I completed this project a bit ago - a logo and menu design for Ursa Minor Coffee, which is a mobile espresso shop based out of Asheville, NC. I even created my own handwritten font for

this project! The logo, menu, and a smattering of stars were enlarged and attached to the trailer; scroll down for images or check out their Facebook page for more images.