whenplantingforests asked:

Coffee: Surprise coffee ask!: "Whats on your bookshelf? And what is your favorite type/brand of coffee?" (I drink my coffee black but do enjoy iced coffees and mochas once in awhile :) Hope you have a lovely day and I really love this series you're doing :)

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You can see a photo of my shelves here (I have never been able to fit all of them in the frame). Thanks for the question! Black coffee drinkers ftw [:

Illustrated (books and things) – 3/∞ – If I Stay & Where She Went by Gayle Forman

I recently read this beautiful duology and had to do art for it because I couldn’t get the imagery out of my head. The scenes above hint directly at each book’s title while also depicting the first things that come to mind when I think of each story.

If I Stay looks out of shards of broken glass into a scene that’s pivotal, both pristine white and grisly (imagine Beethoven’s Cello Sonata no. 3 still playing out of the ruined car’s speakers). Where She Went shows the cover of Shuffle magazine, which claims to have all the details on Adam’s past connection with Mia, being ripped away to show the reality: Adam himself outside Carnegie Hall, just as confused about where Mia went as anyone else. Just a nice bit of irony I couldn’t help adding.

Illustrated (books and things) – 1/∞ – when I first discovered Narnia

I’m currently rereading the entire series and feeling very nostalgic. Pauline Baynes was one of my first art influences; I’m pretty sure I spent hours just looking at her illustrations instead of reading, whoops.