#Bones of Hilo

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Bones of Hilo: A Novel

By Eric Redman.

Design by Patrick Sullivan.

[polartss]

The White Rat🐁

Wen from the Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee :)

[literatureaesthetic]

jade city | playlist

[fionacreates]

Hilo and Anden from Jade City. Through the entire trilogy I just love how their family relationship is, highs and lows. Also consider the first time we see them interact Anden already knows to take off his glasses cos Hilo is gonna really fight him for a “joke”. They’re both messed up…

I couldn’t resist teen Anden with floppy hair no one’s told him to cut in a while…

[starsstardust]

Was rereading Jade City and realised how unhinged "Hilo eating cereals in the kitchen in the same clothes that he wore the previous night to carry out a massacre" was

[nymeere]

A certain fantasy trilogy has become my new favorite thing recently, So here's Hilo from that series 👀

[indie-luna]

My annual reminder that the green bone saga is a masterpiece and I’m so sad that I can’t reread it for the first time again

[magno-knight]

my best boy Kaul Hilo was written so well. so much baby girl put into him, so much cunt. so much love and unweavering loyalty in his family. he gives it all of himself to them even tho he knows he’s putting in more devotion than theO others. and yet, he doesn’t really try to understand them, he won’t let them be outside of what he pictures for them, what he thinks is right and would do for his family. and the author does such a good job of showing how much he adores them from his perspective but won’t try to be more understanding, to really see their struggles and who they are. he’ll jump to forgiveness and forgetting  but won’t consider seeing it from their perspective. if he did that, his relationship with others would be so much better but he doen’t see it !!!!

[devotionconsumed]

im 80% thru jade legacy.....fonda lee U have made me SOB like 6 times throughout this book There is a special place in hell for you.....

[signal-pinktape]

KILL ME KILL ME NOW!!!! I DONT WANNA LIVE

[nighteyed]

The clan is my blood, and the Pillar is its master.

[mythrender]

Back to Tumblr after years away (hi folks!), so I guess I’ll share the cover art I painted for THE JADE SETTER OF JANLOON by Fonda Lee!

This is a wraparound cover for Subterranean Press’ limited edition of the novella; I got to do the title lettering too:

When coming up with ideas, I wrote a mini brief for myself: balance, power, mystery, family ties. The jade setters' neutrality is central to the story and a counterpoint to the clans’ power. (Alternative brief: make it jade as fuck.)

Figuring out the composition was tricky—the piece's rhythm has to work not just when viewed as a whole, but also in smaller sections like the back and front flaps. And while the novella introduces new characters, the Pillars and Horns still loom large as symbols over Janloon...a nod to both their power in the city as well as how readers would be coming off JADE CITY or JADE WAR  familiar with the Kaul family or Mada and Gont Asch.

While reading the manuscript I jot down ideas as they flash by. The seed for this cover can be seen in the top left of this sketchbook page:

I then develop each thumbnail into a very rough colour sketch and put them together with reference images to send to Fonda and Bill Schafer at Sub Press. Sort of a combination of moodboard and thumbnails:

Got the go-ahead to develop thumbnail D, so I make a more detailed sketch of the full composition, with two options for characters’ gestures on the front cover:

And then it’s off to paint! I sneak in little references to the story where I can. The mansion is based on the Straits Eclectic architectural style of shophouses in Penang, where I live, while some of the buildings in the city are based on Hong Kong. Many hours of painting and finagling later, it’s finished, gets sent to the publisher, then the printers, then to Green Bone fans everywhere.

I recently turned in the cover for JADE SHARDS, a short story anthology that’s my favourite Green Bone Saga title so far, and I can’t wait for everyone to see it when pre-orders open next year! Don’t take my word for it: https://twitter.com/FondaJLee/status/1574248123463266304

Fonda’s also posted a peek at the signature page over on her Instagram, showing a crop of Shae and cormorants from the cover art. It’s been a real honour and pleasure getting to draw for a world I’m a fan of :)

[mvsicinthedvrk]

look at the time it's hilo & lan // @rcvcrics

The sight of the other's face doesn't surprise Hilo; it's not the first time he's seen someone who looks like his brother's ghost around the city. Every time, regardless of the time or place, it's never him. Lan's dead-- as he's had to unfortunately reiterate to Shae multiple times-- and whether the lookalikes are some odd manifestation of his suppressed grief or just an unlucky coincidence, it doesn't change the fact that there's no way his true brother could appear walking, talking, and breathing again. Granted, it is the first time he's seen a Lan lookalike at this world's version of the Twice Lucky, but this one doesn't seem to recognize Hilo any more than any of the others did. He can still spend a moment to be friendly, if only to lean into the oddity of it all. "Your first time?" Hilo leans over and glances at the stack of menus on the nearby counter before giving his unrequested recommendation, if one could even call it that: "There's only a rare weak spot here or there in the offerings. Whatever you pick should serve you fine."

[fionacreates]

Today’s sketches, a little fun with Green Bone Saga vibes. Shae and Hilo. Siblings you do not want to piss off…

[starsstardust]

Daily reminder that the first thing Shae thought after realising that Hilo was now the Pillar was that that was going to be the end of No Peak clan.

Pretty middle and last child coded if you ask me. That was right before she pledged her loyalty but the thought was there. Sibling goals.

[kauledin]

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