Above is a hand illustrated book by Allen Crawford. The book is called Whitman Illuminayed: Song of Myself. Its filled with 256-pages of artistically presented poems. He hand draws every single text including commas. I love how the texts work with the visual images complementing each other as a negative and positive. I believe his intention was to make people slow down and enjoy the pleasure of reading artistically. Hand rendered text always catch my eye and I feel like this style is something that I could learn to do and benefit from. Its a way to make reading more interesting by getting lost in fun text styles. It also will help me invent my own text and sharpen my drawing skills.
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