Friday, March 12, 2010

Colorization!

So I found myself sitting with a copy of my book Nautilus and a box of markers. This is what happened...

frontispiece:



first page of 24 x 24:



front endpaper:



Back cover--you will notice this isn't quite finished. The cover is quite glossy, and the marker ink is not so much setting in as hardening into sticky goo... I may have to rethink this:

2 comments:

grthink said...

The marker may not be drying correctly on the cover, but the way it's pooling into little riges mean that when it's scanned it looks really cool.

Andrei Molotiu said...

Yeah, I do kind of like that effect... If only it didn't get all over my fingers each time I try to handle the book.