Client: Personal Project
Jessie Boulard, Illustrator
One of my goals as an illustrator would be to work in the Kidlit industry illustrating book covers for Young Adult books such as The Last Unicorn (depicted here) and the illustration I created for The Neverending Story, but my interests are everywhere. I look forward to illustrating for fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, and others not mentioned here. It would be a dream come true! With this in mind, I've created this personal project to develop my skills working with full page spreads for inside artwork. While my passion is for cover artwork, I look forward to exploring the many facets of kidlit with chapter books, middle grade and young adult always interesting to me.
ABOUT PETER S. BEAGLE:
Peter Soyer Beagle (born April 20, 1939) is an American fantasist and author of novels, nonfiction, and screenplays. He is also a talented guitarist and folk singer. He wrote his first novel, A Fine and Private Place , when he was only 19 years old. Today he is best known as the author of The Last Unicorn, which routinely polls as one of the top ten fantasy novels of all time, and at least two of his other books (A Fine and Private Place and I See By My Outfit) are considered modern classics.
ABOUT THE LAST UNICORN:
She was magical, beautiful beyond belief—and completely alone...
The unicorn had lived since before memory in a forest where death could touch nothing. Maidens who caught a glimpse of her glory were blessed by enchantment they would never forget. But outside her wondrous realm, dark whispers and rumours carried a message she could not ignore: "Unicorns are gone from the world."
Aided by a bumbling magician and an indomitable spinster, she set out to learn the truth. but she feared even her immortal wisdom meant nothing in a world where a mad king's curse and terror incarnate lived only to stalk the last unicorn to her doom...
The unicorn had lived since before memory in a forest where death could touch nothing. Maidens who caught a glimpse of her glory were blessed by enchantment they would never forget. But outside her wondrous realm, dark whispers and rumours carried a message she could not ignore: "Unicorns are gone from the world."
Aided by a bumbling magician and an indomitable spinster, she set out to learn the truth. but she feared even her immortal wisdom meant nothing in a world where a mad king's curse and terror incarnate lived only to stalk the last unicorn to her doom...
"There is a basic fallacy in your reasoning," Schmendrick began indignantly, but the prince never heard what it was. The unicorn flashed by them - her breath streaming blue-white, and her head carried too high - and Prince Lir leaped into the path of the Red Bull. For a moment, he disappeared entirely, like a feather in a flame. The Bull ran over him and left him lying on the ground. One side of his face cuddled too hard into the sand, and one leg kicked the air three times before it stopped.
Illustration inspired by the novel The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle.
