Fahrenheit 451

That older style seemed appropriate for the book, and letterpressing the type instead of placing it digitally was a good challenge (you can see in the photo below that I had the D placed the wrong way, thankfully I caught that in the proofing stage).

After roughing out some thumbnails on cheap sketchbook paper I chose a composition, enlarged it to the size I was going to paint it, and penciled it in with more detail (below). I then took that drawing and traced it onto watercolor paper using a light box. I've only recently started using a light box and it's made life much easier.
It's a handmade box, so it gets a bit toasty on the surface but it works wonders for transferring drawings.
