I was able to design Grace Ingles’s senior portfolio project for her professional writing degree. I loved being able to do illustrations this semester, and had fun laying out the interior designs for this book in particular. I was able to play off of the design and color scheme of The Girl Who Drank The Moon, and use a similar typography as the Lunar Chronicles, which I really enjoyed. It was also fun to create a small little world for the girl featured on the front—Grace’s themes involve a lot of pushing forward and overcoming trials to reach among the stars, so I wanted to create a little place the girl could escape to over the chaos of a busy city and home life. I like to imagine that’s her house with the skylight, just below the cliff (visible in the full artwork below the cover), and that she likes to sneak out at night and watch the skies.

Below is the original artwork I created for the cover of the book.

I also had the opportunity to design her interiors, which you can view samples of below. All text is copyrighted by Grace Ingles.