Inspiration | David Petersen

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I continued to look at forest imagery today. David Petersen is the illustrator of the Mouse Guard book I've looked into previously, and this image above is an extract from one of the books.

I really like the way he's illustrated the trees, the way the black background smothers and begins to eat away at the edges of the trees gives a fantastically sinister feeling to the image. This is something I'd like to take into my design.

Source: http://quietandred.blogspot.co.uk/2012
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Source: http://quietandred.blogspot.co.uk/2012
/04/art-by-david-petersen.html

Above are two more images that David Petersen has illustrated, both in the same style as before. The depth created by different sizes and shadows on the branches in both images is something I'm going to take on board for when drawing my cover out. I like the vignette used on the middle image, I may experiment with this but using it in the opposite way to that with the white being on the outside and the darker colour in the centre.