Long Shelf, Tall Stories
A loose ink-and-marker illustration of an elongated wooden bookshop shelf, exaggerated books and a tiny plant, with crisp diagonal shadows.
Small 640×427, Medium 1200×800
Finished editorial ink-line illustration, 3:2 landscape. A single comically long wooden bookshop display shelf seen in shallow three-quarter view, extending across the lower half of a warm ivory wall. At the left, a compact cluster of oversized books: two improbably tall narrow volumes, several squat broad ones, and one thick book leaning gently against its neighbours. Blank spines, simple rectangular silhouettes. A tiny terracotta pot with three broad green leaves sits near the far right end, separated by an empty stretch of shelf. Loose, expressive black marker contours, slightly irregular strokes, sparse flat ochre, dusty blue and coral fills. Crisp winter sunlight from upper left casts clean blue-grey diagonal shadows beneath the shelf and books. Generous empty space above, strong thumbnail readability, deliberately simple shapes. No people, intricate hatching, text, logos or watermarks.
