Book Cover Project - Sarah Chilton

For my book cover project, I chose to illustrate a scene from China Mieville's award-winning fantasy novel, Perdido Street Station, where one of the main characters, a bird-man ("garuda") called Yagharek, removes his cloak to reveal to another character, Isaac, that he is wingless. For this project I drew a lot of inspiration from old minimalist book covers (specifically, those produced by Penguin books) and old posters. I wanted to go for a clean, minimalist look.

Here's the wikipedia page for the book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdido_Street_Station I really recommend it, China Mieville is a brilliant writer!