The final chapter starts today!

It's the final chapter cover reveal, which means it's my time for me to tell my final tale of woe about how I planned out this illustration thinking it would be super easy--literally just a gravestone and some flowers!--only to get completely lost in the weeds, miss my deadline, and end up haunted by it through the entire end of 2024. For one, I find simplicity often quite challenging--with so few elements, any flaw in execution is going to stand out. And while a lot of the elements depicted here are pretty easy to do, they're tough to do well. In particular, I find gradients on flat surfaces and shallow engravings particularly grating when done poorly--they remind me of early 2000s Geocities websites, but not in the fun nostalgic way. 

By the way, I realized I've forgotten to post some of the Volume 3 promotional work that I've been adding to Instagram and my newsletter--we're less than a month away from launch day, so for now, here's the reveal of the full spine design!

If you want to see the original illustration the spine draws from, please check out my newsletter post on the subject! And as always, please don't forget to pre-order and fill out your pre-order gift forms at the banner link below!