The Outsider
Cover binding and illustrations for competition entry.
Cover binding and illustrations for competition entry.
LSubmission for House of Illustration and Folio Society competition. The brief was to illustrate three scenes from the novel and design a cover binding. I decided to try linocut illustrations as I thought they might work well with the atmosphere of the novel and the characterisation of the protaganist.
Here is the cover mock up. The idea is for this design to be created as a linocut.
Here is the cover mock up. The idea is for this design to be created as a linocut.
Part One, Chapter One, Page 12:
Part One, Chapter Six, Page 39:
The trigger gave, and the smooth underbellyof the butt jogged my palm. And so, with that crisp, whipcrack sound, it allbegan. I shook off my sweat and the clinging veil of light.
Part Two, Chapter Three, Page 56:
His tone and the look of triumph on his face,as he glanced at me, were so marked that I felt as I hadn’t felt for ages. Ihad a foolish desire to burst into tears. For the first time I’d realized howall these people loathed me.
