Howl's Moving Castle
House of Illustration Competition 2019
The Book Illustration Competition is a partnership between House of Illustration and The Folio Society - each year applicants submit three illustrations and a binding design for a book chosen by The Folio Society. Each illustration must be for a different chapter, spread throughout the book and accompanied by a text caption from the story. The book to be illustrated this year was Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones.
The binding design focused on paper cut style silhouettes to provide a note of familiarity with the internal illustrations, featuring strong white contrasts to reflect the themes of good and evil.
The internal illustrations focused on a limited colour palette, initially created with ink and then enhanced through digital painting.
Manipulated typeface to echo the fanciful nature of the character of Howl
Front Cover
Back Cover
Chapter One
“She looked into the nearest rack, in an absent-minded way, and handed Sophie a cream cake out of it. ‘You may need this,’ she said.”
Chapter Four
“There was a square wooden knob above the door, set into the lintel, a dab of paint on each of its four sides.”
Chapter Seventeen
"Magic had been at work here. Sophie knew it had. And the castle fitted somehow."
