The Nine Pound Hammer
A hardcover book jacket for John Claude Bemis’s The Nine Pound Hammer, the first of the Clockwork Dark trilogy. I loved these books as a child and wanted to capture that feeling of whimsy and adventure.
An interior illustration to accompany the book jacket. This scene depicts when the protagonist frees a rabbit from a trap and it disappears, leaving behind his magical lodestone as a golden rabbit’s paw.