the most awesome thing about Babel characters is it either motivates you to study your ass off or to overthrow the shitty education system by non-compliance, and either way you KNOW Robin and Ramy and Victorie will be proud of you.
Decided to actually have a separate small notebook for common-placing. This spread is an example of what I might look like, and here are some quotes from my favourite book from last year: Babel by R.F. Kuang. ☕️
Sooooo, Russian edition of Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang is almost here, and I've made maps for endpaper of this book. More about this project on my behance.
Color tests:
This was my first attempt with such plans, so I heavily used map of Oxford by Spencer Hoffman (1929) in many aspect, and Google Earth 3D for understanding how historical building is looks like. Some of my references and inspirations:
robin and griffin from babel. also a doodle of the main 4 that i did back while i was reading. I wanna draw more from this book...hopefully sooner rather than later