Essential Women of Liberty Book Cover and Illustrations

A commission to illustrate a book publication profiling women of free-thinking and significance in philosophy and economics. The portraits are hand drawn based on disparate sources from entirely different periods.  Each portrait heads the subject’s chapter, and are assembled in collage for the book cover.  The colours used in the collage are symbolic to the diversity of thoughts and personalities. The challenge was not only to render the likeness of each subject, but also to find a stylistic consistency so as to harmonise the overall design presentation.