Mystic Travelogues

As most illustrators will tell you, it's rare than any of the prospective authors who occasionally approach you about working on a book they're writing will ever speak to you again. In fact, well over 90% of them will never finish their book, much less find a publisher, and then convince the publisher to hire that artist they like.

However, this is just what J.C.Nusbaum did. I was contacted by J.C. a few months ago about working on the cover for his children's book The Mystic Travelogues. Interestingly, he requested a design similar to an old project I had done in school. The beauty of student work is that you can recycle the good parts later for a commercial project, and end up with something fresh.



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