This story is about adultery and betrayal. I decided to illustrate a black mink coat right after I read the story. I used this kind of uncomfortable feeling and phobia to build up the atmosphere of the story. Some people even feel extremely uncomfortable to touch or smell raw meat – it’s almost like a kind of raw meat phobia. I decided to illustrate a raw lamb leg because I’ve found a lot of people are disgusted when they think about “raw meat”. I made the trimmed part of the lamb leg look like a silhouette of a lady to try to engage the read. The stories I choose to illustrated from Roald Dahl’s book are:įor this book cover, I decided to illustrate a lamb leg, if you’ve read the story you know the “lamb leg” actually plays an important role in this story. I also wanted to use this project to prove that I can illustrate something more mature, dark and less happy. One of the book covers is based on another short story collection from Roald Dahl called “ Someone Like You“. So recently I started a personal “book cover illustration and design” project and I decided to go back to illustrate some of the stories from “Kiss Kiss” in my current illustration style. A lot of the time when I’m illustrating cute and happy things I’m actually watching horror films at the same time.
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The length of each story is perfect as well, as I don’t have a lot of time to sit down and read for myself as I have a four year old daughter. So this kind of short story collection is perfect for me as I also love films and books that contain horror, serial killers etc. This book is very easy to read so I had no problem understanding it even with my English. The stories in “Kiss Kiss” are quite creepy and scary and involve stories of the dark side of humanity, murder and even cannibalism. First, these definitely aren’t children’s stories. But after I read the first couple stories from this book it was mind blowing. This was the first time I had read a Roald Dahl story.īefore I read “Kiss Kiss”, I thought “Ah! Roald Dahl’s books must be child friendly but he wrote a lot of great stories for children!”. When I was studying in the HND illustration course, one of my teachers gave us a project to illustrate and design four book covers from Roald Dahl‘s book “ Kiss Kiss” short stories collection.