Throne of Glassa special-edition cover concept

This project began with my wife. She reads at a pace I can barely keep up with, around a book every two or three days, and of everything she reads, the Throne of Glass series, TOG to its readers, is the one she loves most. It was her idea that I draw a cover for each of the eight books.

So that is the proposal: eight covers, every one drawn entirely by hand in Caran d'Ache Luminance coloured pencil, in the same fine-art practice behind my gallery work. Each would draw on the world of the books, its scenes, its characters and its mythical creatures, built slowly, layer over layer. And one idea ties the whole set together: a single illustrated landscape running across all eight sprayed edges, so the complete image appears only when the books are lined up in order on a shelf.

I'm drawing the series now, one cover at a time. This is the concept, a starting point for a conversation about bringing it to readers officially.

Readers of this series rarely stop at one copy. Special editions, with their foiled covers, character art and sprayed edges, have become a category of their own, and the most beautiful limited runs tend to sell out quickly.

A fully hand-drawn set, carrying an illustration that completes only when all eight books stand together, is made for that shelf, and for the kind of reader who wants to own the whole world, not just the story.

This is a starting point, not a fixed plan. A few of the shapes a collaboration could take: