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Interior Illustrations – To Green Angel Tower

Donato Giancola

These past few years I have had the honor to interpret a classic fantasy trilogy from the 1990's, Tad William's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series for Grim Oak Press. This trilogy culminates in the final massive tome To Green Angel Tower, and is so large it has historically been published as two volumes due to issues around binding that many pages in one book. Luckily for me as an illustrator tackling this project, it meant…

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Three Manual Transfer Methods

Winona Nelson

December 15, 2025 - I'm doing a small painting for a dear friend, and it occurred to me that this is a great opportunity to do a triple demo showing different transfer techniques. Once you have a drawing ready, or in this case a photo reference, there are many ways of getting that drawing onto a surface. I'll be demonstrating 3 - gridding, graphite transfer, and oil transfer. I call these manual since all of them involve drawing the lines by hand rather than mounting or directly transferring a print to a surface, though each has a different medium. Gridding is just what it sounds like - you can either create a grid on your surface using a ruler, or what I do: Divide your surface into quarters, then quarter each of those quarters. Fold the print half first…

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