This fall I am taking a class called
Illustration as Design as Illustration with
Melanie Marder Parks at
The School of Visual Arts, where you explore ways to incorporate hand-drawn illustration and lettering into graphic design. Our first assignment was to design a book plate for yourself or as a gift for someone, and here is what I came up with. It is for my husband (who is a professional bookworm), featuring Sam, the beautiful black lab he grew up with.
I drew the illustration and lettering on a bristol board with a Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pen. After scanning it and cleaning it up in Photoshop, I printed it on Crane Lettra cardstock.
This assignment made me a huge fan of bookplates. Who knew personalized miniature art adorning the inside cover of your favorite book could make you so happy? I think all booklovers should have one!
Here is a great blog for bookplate inspirations.
I love this soooooo much.
ReplyDeleteLove that! Personal and professional at the same time--sweet.
ReplyDeleteOh, that is so lovely....it has a certain oldfashion look that gets me...
ReplyDeleteand as a pro-bookworm i think your husband will appreciate it very much.
^_^
What a great gift! I love the ilustration, the letterings, the idea!
ReplyDeleteI think the spanish translation for bookworm would be ratón de biblioteca, literally, library mouse. I love that one, bookworm, thanks for discovering it to me! :-)
Oh wow that's so great!
ReplyDeleteThis is amazing - I love the lettering and the drawing... You are taking such AWESOME classes! I wish we had things like that around here!
ReplyDelete*Squeal* Thanks so much, everybody!
ReplyDeleteAlmu, "library mouse" sounds so much cuter than bookworm to me, love that!
looks like letter press feeling!
ReplyDelete:) i love it!
DING DING DING, ding ding ding....I wish YoU A MErrY ChiSTmaS ANd a haPpy nEw YeEAaRr! :-))) ( i never had singing voice... hihihi)
ReplyDeleteHugs Judith