Penguin Random House
The Art of War is one of the oldest and most quoted books on strategy, so the challenge for this cover was to make something that feels ancient and urgent at the same time. This edition, translated by David Sevillano and published by Roca Editorial, needed a single image strong enough to carry the whole book.
I drew a warrior on horseback in an ornamental, almost woodcut-like line, with the mane and smoke turning into flowing patterns. Everything sits on a saturated red, so the cover reads from across a bookstore and feels like a banner raised before battle.
