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The Back Endpaper for ‘The Bone Shard Daughter’ by Andrea Stewart ❣️ (2/6) This was one of my favourites of the six endpapers. When I read the brief I was so excited to work out how to portray such an epic scene and with so many characters/creatures 🖤

My illustration of the back endpaper of The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart. SPOILERS. A savage battle scene depicting the final moment before the Emperor’s death. All around them are dead or wounded constructs, bleeding and in mid battle. The centre is of Lin and the Emperor. Lin has one hand raised pointing towards the Emperor, commanding Bing Tai to attack. The emperor locks eye contact with Lin in shock as Bing Tai ferociously lunges and surrounds him, wrapping his jaw around his neck. The entire scene is framed within a circular border of an Asian wooden screen with a phoenix on either side. The whole illustration has a circular flow to create a visceral and dynamic atmosphere.

A notable feature of AI is that it has changed the nature of what feels amateurish. It used to be that a poster made by someone who didn’t know what they were doing would be comic sans on clipart, which was at least charming. Now it’s that creepy Ghibli-knockoff style and lots of greebly overdetail.

Victoria Ying@victoriaying.com · 3mo ago

The craziest thing about the AI boosters is when they say “you can’t do this without AI” “I can’t make an event flyer without AI” when we all remember just 3 years ago how we all got along fine without it.