Mortal Engines
by thisnorthernboy
I was asked earlier this year to work on some illustrations for The Illustrated World of Mortal Engines. The book is a visual guide of the world of Traction Cities, created by the author Philip Reeve, and written by Philip and Jeremy Levett. If you don’t know about Traction Cities, you should definitely check out Philip’s books. They’re a fantastic mix of science fiction, fantasy and steampunk.
The Illustrated World has work from seven different artists (including me, which I have to keep pinching myself to believe), and has been beautifully put together by Jamie Gregory over at Scholastic UK. The book, underneath its dust cover, is a beautiful, vibrant orange, embossed with a lovely motif of gears and cogs.
Philip and Jeremy have written a great A-Z of the book, which gives you a very good idea of the content.
The other artists in the book are: Aedel Fakhrie, Ian McQue, Maxime Plasse, Philip Varbanov, David Wyatt, and Amir Zand. I’ve been a massive fan of Ian and Amir’s work for bloody ages, and the other artists work a revelation! To be in the same book as them all is a huge honour.
All my illustrations are drawn with Copic SP Multiliners, Rotring Tikky, and Kuretake No.8 Brush Pen. Initial sketches are done with Palomino Blackwings and a Pentel Graphgear Mechanical Pencil.
You can find prints of my work here
this northern boy 
Looks like a beautiful book and your drawings really give me a good feel for the setting.
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