Character Aesthetics

I've been playing around making collages that give a sense of the characters in my book. Apparently these "character aesthetics" are a thing.

I have learnt so much doing this self-publishing thing. It's easy to do, yes - but not so easy to do well. I keep having to make decisions about how well I want to do each step. This weekend I was reading up on book design - who knew that someone actually has to design the fonts and spacing and page numbers and all that inside the book?  I learnt a new word: kerning. It's the way the letters are spaced in a font. I had no idea.

I made these in Canva, which is a free online design tool, using free stock photos from Pixabay and Unsplash. It was fun.