The Trail endpapers [for Scholastic]

[Falconius]

That is awesome. Fantastic work. What is that ball/swirly globe thing in the first image? Something from the book?

[J.Edward]

Your illustrations are outstanding, no wonder you can produce such beautiful maps, if you can make such magnificent landscape painting/illustration. (which i find way more difficult than maps).

Thanks for sharing and congratz on that commission !

Thank you Voolf
Adding other illustrations into a map can be challenging. For me, it has a lot to do with how well I planned it out before starting.
I have a desire to jump right in to the map.

That is awesome. Fantastic work. What is that ball/swirly globe thing in the first image? Something from the book?

Thanks Falconius
It's a marble, which does figure strongly in the story.
The particular marble was described and was not an easy thing to try to portray.
All of the smaller illustrations relate to specific locations or events in the story.
A number of them changed over the course of edits and revisions.