One part title page illustration (for the Local Edition of the House) down, four to go. I tend to do a little mock-up of how they'll look printed.

Mock-up of an open book showing the "Part One: Shadows" title page for The House. A black-and-white illustration of a raven perched on a wooden gate fills the page, set against a brick wall lit by a diagonal shaft of light and shadow. The left-hand page shows a fragment of body text from the previous chapter.
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Mock-up of an open book showing the "Part One: Shadows" title page for The House. A black-and-white illustration of a raven perched on a wooden gate fills the page, set against a brick wall lit by a diagonal shaft of light and shadow. The left-hand page shows a fragment of body text from the previous chapter.

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Minu Freitag · 0 · 1d ago
I feel I am sooo bad at this—I mean, there is so much incredible talent out there, so why am I even trying to do this? I am not getting better, neither is the process getting easier. To find a way through this, I decided to only add part title page illustrations to the maps and notebook pages ...
Minu Freitag · 0 · 1d ago
... I created for the KDP edition. After running through too many concepts to count, I have come back to the first ideas for "Part One, Shadows", focusing on the first encounter between the Eass and the Raven. I sketched the complete scene with the gate, poster, and the fire escape...
Minu Freitag · 0 · 1d ago
... then threw all that work away and kept it very simple, focusing on the Raven sitting on the gate's shadow. The light is adding some drama, but contradicts how the shadows sit on the brick wall, maybe something I just need to get over. Lessons learned—this is not coming easy to me.