Since 2016, together with my dear friend Buvnon, I have been developing the story and artwork for an upcoming illustrated fantasy epic called The Island of Magic and Mystery. The saga follows the adventures of a young girl named Nouf and her unexpected travels through a mysterious and magical land called Felwild. This article is an ongoing documentation of the artwork created for the series of books. I look forward to updating this article as new pieces emerge. Enjoy and stay tuned for more…

An ongoing series of posts, capturing the making of a children’s graphic novel series The Island of Magic & Mystery

Once I had flushed out most of my initial ideas for the books I was going to create, going far and wide in my explorations, I began work on the actual materials needed, in order to pitch my book series to publishers. In my research to gain knowledge about the children’s publishing industry, I visited book stores, read online articles, and purchased a copy of the Children’s Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook. As a rookie entering the publishing world, I needed…

An ongoing series of posts, capturing the making of a children’s graphic novel series The Island of Magic & Mystery

One of the elements which I got most excited about creating early on, was the map of the world in which the story would take place in. I man c’mon, no fantasy story is truly complete without a detailed map the reader can reference as they move through the story.

A wild fictional place, where the elements of the land are a celebration of the diversity of our own planet, our unique cultures, rich history, and the natural world which…

An ongoing series of posts, capturing the making of a children’s graphic novel series The Island of Magic & Mystery

The first phase of work entailed a few months of scribbling down any idea that came into my head. I carried a notebook around with me everywhere, and when a plot line, character figure, or random name of an imaginary mountain range popped into my head, I wrote it down. Very little tied these ideas together, except that I knew I wanted to include them in the world I was setting off to create. It was like compiling the ultimate…

An ongoing series of posts, capturing the making of a children’s graphic novel series The Island of Magic & Mystery

What began as an idea to create a highly immersive and fantastical board game, quickly transformed into a large-scale children’s graphic novel series. Set in a magical world, complete with hundreds of wild character, hundreds of unique places and even a few new languages, The Island of Magic and Mystery is a story about a young girl named Nouf, who accidentally, and under mysterious circumstances, finds herself shipwrecked on the shores of a magical land called Felwild. Lost, and initially…