True Magic Bookmark

So I made this bookmark for a contest and had it half done before I realized that digital art wasn't allowed but I finished it anyway. The hand-drawn one is below. The quote, "Books may well be the only true magic" is attributed to Alice Hoffman. Neuschwanstein castle from Germany is on the top. All photos used in the bookmark are either mine or from online free stock (credited below). All the quotes spiraling out of the book are from works in the public domain.

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The book quotes are from the following works (roughly left to right): Moby Dick by Herman Melville, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. 

I honestly didn't realize I'd chosen three books by Charles Dickens, sorry about that, I was trying not to repeat too many authors. You can tell I read a lot of classics. :-/

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Here's the hand-drawn one, again featuring Neuschwanstein castle and the same quotes, minus one or two. Made using colored pens and pencils. Behind the spiraling quotes there's a stack of books and two pairs of wings; they're really hard to see because the scanner lightened them so much.

Peladon Digital Art

So it's been a while and I finally finished my drawing of King Peladon! He's a secondary character in the Classic Doctor Who episode "The Curse of Peladon." The Doctor (Three) arrives on the planet Peladon with his companion Jo, and, with the help of King Peladon, prevents a rebel overthrow and allows Peladon (the planet) to be admitted to the Galactic Federation. King Peladon is played by the excellent David Troughton (son of Patrick Troughton).

The piece is done digitally, using Corel Photo-Paint X5. It took several months of on-and-off work, but I think it turned out alright! Most of it was done using a stylus and tablet, and there's some minor textures digitally added to the background. There's also a bit of VanGogh style in the torches. :-)

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