Butterfly over a Shadow

As part of a haiku book I have been designing the illustrations for along with the book cover jacket and the format of the book, this piece of work is a personal favourite.

The poem goes:

"on a shadow

of a flower,

a butterfly"

- S.J

The Design Process

I analysed the poem and visualised what the words were telling me. Once I had an image construct in my mind, I straight away sketched my vision on Adobe Fresco. There are two layers to this; the shaded graphite pencil and the thin soft pixel brush pencil in pink, yellow and black & grey.

The time spent on drawing was quite short; approximately a day to complete including feedback and reiteration development on the design.