Book two of the Gerard Way's Vampire Detective Agency by jjtaylor (prev book here), The Detective's Secret and the Mystery of the Dancing Flowers! I dropped having a more similar cover for the sequel to the first for an antique cover design (Verzamelde Opstellen, erste bundel, by Lvan Deyssel) that I absolutely fell in love with and fit the sequel quite well (if we wanna split hairs, the Hounds of Baskerville by sherlock in the same first edition collection has a widely different cover). In fact I kinda went bonkers for using oak leaf designs throughout the book in entirety, but what can I say I love a theme. I know the dancing flowers are a viscaria but like... So many good oak leaf designs for the green man out there...
The photos of the book that I could find online only included the front cover, so had to mock up my own spine (it has designs on the spine, you just can't see em) and played around with the design for the back to get them in a way I liked. Spent most of the time while painting the covers binging my way through the white vault, which I do highly recommend btw. All in all very pleased with the result; nothing like such a fun repeating design like this, and I also got to trot out again my newly learned double core endbands, which I did this time with five different colours (we getting fancy!)
