The Book Illustration Competition is a unique partnership between House of Illustration and The Folio Society that seeks to identify and promote new talent in illustration. The annual international competition is open to illustrators over the age of 18, both student and professional, who have not been previously published by The Folio Society.
Each year entrants are asked to submit three illustrations and a binding design for a book chosen by The Folio Society. The winner receives a highly sought-after commission, worth £5,000, to complete a total of nine illustrations and a binding design for the book, which is then published by The Folio Society. Five runners each receive £500 cash.
This year we are asking entrants to submit three illustrations and a binding design for The Selected Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. The new edition, featuring illustrations by the winner, will be published by The Folio Society as part of its Christmas 2018 campaign.The brief was to read these three Sherlock Holmes stories – A Scandal in Bohemia, The Man With the Twisted Lip and The Musgrave Ritual.
To enter the competition I had to make an illustration for each story and a binding design for the collection – The Selected Adventures and Memoirs ofSherlock Holmes.
Illustration for the story A Scandal in Bohemia:
[…]The photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the right bell-pull. She was there in an instant […]
Illustration for the story The Man with the Twisted Lip:
[…] a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old man […]
Illustration for The Musgrave Ritual:
[…] I had sat motionless, thinking the matter out. Musgrave still stood with a very pale face, swinging his lantern […]
