This project and illustration is inspired by the book "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck. To be specific the first chapter of the book, that includes:
A FEW MILES south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the strong and rocky Gabilan mountains, but on the valley side the water is lined with trees - willows fresh and green with every spring, carrying in their lower leaf junctures the debris of the winter’s flooding; and sycamores with mottled, white, recumbent limbs and branches that arch over the pool. On the sandy bank under the trees the leaves lie deep and so crisp that a lizard makes a great skittering if he runs among them. Rabbits come out of the brush to sit on the sand in the evening, and the damp flats are covered with the night tracks of ’coons, and with the spread pads of dogs from the ranches, and with the split-wedge tracks of deer that come to drink in the dark.
I was inspired to make this font by the book and illustration I did. I wanted to combine the nature elements to give off the book vibe.
I tried to put my main focus point in the painting in the tress. The are green but at the same time gives off the yellowish Fall vibe that represents the story.
And this is the final result. And to be honest I'm pretty proud of, especially the font.
