https://www.zoelehoux.com/home daily 1.0 2025-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/cbbdb108-efd8-4b19-b2f3-f9fdf4736de6/The+Golden+Compass+summary.png Home A blue hot air balloon floats above snowy mountains, with a purple sky covered in Northern lights. Near the top, some of the lights look geometric, like a cityscape. The bottom half of the image reads "The Golden Compass" and then smaller, "Phillip Pullman." The top of the image has small text reading "His Dark Materials: book 1." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/3998f070-9a1c-47ab-ab01-bd4006279622/the+subtle+knife.png Home A book cover with large angled black text reading "The Subtle Knife" in the centre, and "Phillip Pullman" just beneath. Along the top reads "His Dark Materials" and "Book 2." The illustration shows a classic Mediterranean town, shadowy, and a large tower emerging from behind. The tower has a glass roof like a greenhouse. Splashed all across the image are rainbow shimmers. The sky background is a bright blue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/f174e124-d432-49c7-98f3-e7850d1930b6/ari+and+dante+jacket.png Home The same front cover for "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" as shown earlier, laid out now as a full jacket spread. On the spine, white outlines of a chair and a bird are on either end of the text. The back cover shows a blurb and pull quotes in yellow, white, and blue text to match the front cover, against a background the same as the front cover but without the lights and the feet. A sketch of a rocking chair is below the text, then below that are the ISBN and a stand-in area for the cover of the sequel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/4e6dd6fb-ba68-4467-861e-ac304cd44e6f/The+Scorpio+Races.png Home In the background, a boy gallops on a red horse along a cliffside, followed by a girl on a dun horse. At the bottom of the cliffs are dark waves and a blood-stained beach. In front of the cliffs the title reads "The Scorpio Races" in a handwritten cursive white font with blood-coloured edges and splatters. At the bottom in front of the waves "Maggie Stiefvater" is written in a tall, thin, white sans serif font. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/4160ca59-a2fb-4b93-ada0-f8f0263a6bd7/disfigured.png Home On a dark mossy-green background, light green gothic text reads "Disfigured" with a hand on the first "i," a mermaid tail on the tail of the "g," and spines along the back of the "d." The subtitle in a regular all-caps green serif font reads "on fairy tales, disability, and making space." Above the title in pink and the same font as the subtitle is "Amanda LeDuc." Between the title and each of the three lines of the subtitle are pink line drawings, the first of hills, the second of waves, and the third with a rose in some grass beside a path at the base of some stairs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/548695e2-7797-4509-bc90-bb90f36ded9d/Rose+Under+Fire.png Home "Rose Under Fire" is written in red above a barbed wire fence. "Elizabeth Wein" is written on the wall below the fence. Above, and taking up most of the image is a wide blue sky and in its centre above the fence is a paper airplane with a crowned rabbit drawn along its side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/c0243c92-ccf6-440e-8acd-eae7b7a28298/If+We+Were+Villains.png Home A steel dagger is centred with dock in a lake with dark stormy clouds in the background. The dagger has a small laurel wreath and crown on its handle but that’s not visible without zooming in. At the top of the image reads “If We Were Villains” in a white serif font, justified and bracketed by large curved brackets. Across the dock at the bottom of the page reads “M. L. Rio” in lowercase and smaller. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/e2b02007-fe96-49f5-bb4b-936b21379329/If+We+Were+Villains+page+spread.png Home A page spread matching "If We Were Villains" shows the first two pages of the chapter. Between the "{Scene 1}" header and the start of the body text is a small lineart illustration of a sparrow in flight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/cc617431-2c72-4071-9410-65a8d459f0e7/Dread+Nation+cover.png Home A parchment-coloured background with brown ink illustrations and details in red ink shows an old West-style town street, with a wall in the distant background at the street’s end. Blood/red ink drips from it. Red highlights curtains, brick, doorframes, and flecks the street in footprints among the brown ink bumps of the dirt road. Standing centred in the street at its front is a girl with a scythe in each hand. Below her reads “Justina Ireland,” in the same brown ink colour. Taking up a bit less than half the space at the top of the image is the title “Dread Nation” in an ink-brown bold serif font. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/d9d37b14-8228-42ba-9b47-e6ac70c3aa77/This+Savage+Song+1+copy.png Home A minimalist cover for "This Savage Song," with a black background. The details are in bright red. The title is left-justified in thin, sans-serif type, and “Victoria Schwab” is written along the bottom. A grid of tally marks covers the image, except at the edges and where there is text. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/12510780-76a1-4f64-872b-3b299977316d/our+dark+duet+1+copy.jpg Home This cover matches "This Savage Song," using the same black background, font, and composition. The details here are in bright blue. The tallies here are replaced with a repeated circle-inside-a-circle, like a simplified eye, a line dividing each along the centre going left and toward the bottom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/6e05e2a8-84c1-4d8b-8bb1-193e5df768e8/war+and+peace+cover+copy.png Home An illustration made to look like a painting with a gold frame. The frame has circular bumps in a connected line along the inner edge like a string of pearls. The top of the frame has a chandelier surrounded on either side by stylized comets, and the bottom of the frame has a moon with quills on either side of it. The image within the frame is blurred, showing a field with smoke rising from the hills and a wide open sky is above. In the foreground, hand-drawn black calligraphy reads "War and Peace," and below that in a serif font text reads "Leo Tolstoy" and smaller below that, "Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/e3819a54-6371-476a-9142-3fe1a9295513/Interior+Design+Highlights+copy+2.png Home A front and back book cover and spine for This Side of Paradise by F Scott Fitzgerald. The back cover has blocks of text and an illustration of a 1920s car. The spine has the book title and author name, the front cover the same, and an image of a hand holding a glass of wine, gothic towers reflected and swirling in it https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/d2fadf6c-45cd-40b2-8e5a-d5ea297cf2bf/Interior+Design+Highlights+copy+3.png Home A table of contents, fonts matching the cover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/7a02c4a1-ab7f-497c-a4a8-6e28b0bae7c1/Interior+Design+Highlights+copym+copy.png Home A chapter opening page https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/5bbca401-63b7-4abe-ac99-9397de0716ee/Interior+Design+Highlights+copyj+copy.png Home An interior spread, mostly regular text, but also a title for a new section and two letters. https://www.zoelehoux.com/about daily 0.75 2025-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/7dd1a2ba-358e-4352-b8c0-80b1cec1af56/DSC_0519.JPG https://www.zoelehoux.com/freelancework daily 0.75 2024-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/b9ba709b-6d36-49e0-a967-8d51e3d25932/Dreaming+Booklist.png Freelance Work A stack of book spines: "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson, "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline, "Barry Squires, Full Tilt" by Smith, "The Trailblazing Life of Viola Desmond" by Kehoe with Robson, "Twice as Perfect" by Onomé, "Something More" by Khalilieh, "Phenomenal Female Entrepreneurs" by Jill Bryant, "Both Sides Now" by Peyton Thomas, "Walking in Two Worlds" by Wab Kinew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/4d4ebd9e-5cba-448b-8907-983c81d51aa0/Truth+and+Reconciliation+Booklist.png Freelance Work A stack of book spines: Craft + Swinson, "Treaty Words," Laronde, "She Holds Up the Stars," Maracle, "I am Woman," Robertson, "The Barren Grounds," Monique Gray Smith, "Speaking Our Truth," "First Peoples Shared Stories," "This Place: 150 Years Retold," Kimmerer, Smith, and Neidhart, "Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults." A watermark at the top of the stack reads "Nelson | edwin." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/fa707e00-5b72-422a-9ca7-de7ce72e2b38/where%27s+waldo+colour.png Freelance Work An illustration of a crowded city scene showing people between and inside two large brick buildings and in a park between them. There are several different small scenes playing out. The art uses strong lines and flat colours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/427da934-eedd-4c15-bbe6-d3f46a22b9b3/Saturn+Diaries+ARC+1+page+copy.png Freelance Work A sell sheet shows "The Saturn Diaries." A the top of the page is a Life to Paper Publishing logo, ISBN, date, and publicity contact. The title of the book is featured large just below this, followed by sections seperated by pink lines coordinated to the pink in the book's cover. The first section below the title has the cover on the left and a summary on the right. The section below this has an author biography. At the very bottom of the page are links to the author's social media and information on getting an advance reader copy of the book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/14e4d56a-ee77-4dfe-8010-733415ed03b1/Spearhead+t-shirt+back+copy.png Freelance Work In the style of the back of a weathered concert T-shirt, a series of beer styles are listed alongside dates. A header reads "Spearhead 1000th BREW" and a long paddle for stirring brewing beer separates the two columns of beers. The background is black and the text and paddle are white, with the dates in orange. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/ecb37ac0-a932-4da6-a5c9-cb6efb0bd3a0/china+mongolia+openon.png Freelance Work A Mongolian and Chinese flag stand on either side of in image with text between them reading "Ontarians spent 64 times more money in China and Mongolia in 2016 than they spent there in 1990." The Open Government Ontario logo is below the text, a multicoloured text reading "OPENON." The background is a textured blue fading into a yellow circle in the middle where the text is featured. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/673df944-1aba-42d5-9a56-308b223c0995/Love+Image+%28ELA9%2C+T3%2C+U1%2C+FG%29ZL.png Freelance Work A series of images against a pink background. At the top, a banner reads, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a great fortune must be in want of a wife." Below that, a dark-skinned prince and princess stand, holding hands. They wear regal Victorian-style clothes. Beside them is an aromantic flag, beside that a young man holding a rose up to a woman in a red 1600s dress where she stands on a balcony. A watermark reads "NELSON | edwin." At the bottom of the image is an ornately framed image of a young white woman in a white 1860s dress standing beside a balding old white man, a hunched over priest performing a marriage ceremony. Next to that, a couple faces away from the viewer, looking at the sunset as they ride through a field on a brown horse towards it. They are dressed for the late 1600s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/21714e77-df6c-41f9-bf86-bed15125be40/perimeter+work.png Freelance Work Five illustrations depict different alien species. In the top row are a yellow-green predatory bird with insect arms, a brown rat with dragonfly eyes and beaver teeth, a large yellow-orange scaled animal with a body shaped like a walking gorilla's, four red eyes, protruding saberteeth, and large spikes coming out of its back. In the bottom row are a yellow deer-shaped animal with very long floppy mauve ears, a cow's face and horns, and a fish tail, and a plant made of daffodil leaves growing from a tree stump and with stems with hanging orange bulbs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/51842343-ea3b-4036-90a9-ab881aece2cf/20220719_201703.jpg Freelance Work A photograph of a T-shirt front shows a running dog skeleton below arched text reading "SKELETON PARK" and running on top of "BREWERY," which has illustrations of hops on either side of the word. These elements are all adapted from the Skeleton Park Brewery logo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/1680029947709-0Q2G0KR69PTDK46QMP4G/honey%2Bopenon.jpg Freelance Work Text reads "In 2018, Ontario is estimated to have produced more than $34 million worth of honey." Below this is the Open Government Ontario logo, rainbow text reading "OPENON." Beside the text is an illustration of a wooden honey dipper, dripping honey. The background of the image is a textured pink fading into a yellow circle around the end of the honey dipper. https://www.zoelehoux.com/illustration daily 0.75 2025-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/98d20d8a-560e-42cd-b084-8c5986682337/ofmd+sunset+7.17.14+PM.png Illustration A man wearing a loose white shirt and dark pants stands on a rocky beach with a small rowboat in front of a sea and cloudy sunset. He is mostly silhouetted, facing the sea and everything is shades of brown, orange, and yellow. The illustration is textured like paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/01c2935b-709f-4ecc-b1e9-63e468b30d16/figaro.jpg Illustration In shades of pink and orange, two women dressed in 1700s-inspired stays lean in to kiss each other. They are both Caucasian and wear modern stage makeup. One woman is blonde, 40, and dressed in pink, tilting the other woman’s chin up with her fingertips, and this woman is red-headed, mid-twenties, with purple stays and puffy floral-embroidered white gauze sleeves. The drawing has a photographic and sketched quality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/9a9f8383-9445-4c90-8a14-a3f97ca61a99/tumblr_ppu1d5FHKb1y3tmtlo1_1280.jpg Illustration On a piece of denim in a circular embroidery hoop is an embroidered ship made to look like a dragon. It has a decorative head, wings, and tail in gold with a body in green. Its sail is purple and it has a yellow banner trailing from the crow's nest. It rides above three embroidered waves, one navy, one sea green, one light blue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/df27f3e2-7a48-4f74-808a-cefcde0ba3bc/20230118_013444+newspaper.png Illustration A high contrast black-and-white image, with a dotted newspaper print texture shows a Greek-style statue of a curvy woman wearing a cloth draped like a dress around her, holding the end of the cloth above her head so it falls down beside her as well. The viewer looks up at the statue from below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/8f2d8b96-0047-4324-af1b-a8823803e183/atwd-instagram.gif Illustration An illustrated gif shows a man twirling three times. He is Caucasian with short copper hair and wears a red chokha coat with gold trim. It swirls around him as he moves. The background is warm yellow. The illustration uses bold linework and simple shaded colours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/ee91efbf-bcb5-44a6-b620-ab886317fde4/jcm.jpg Illustration Against a navy starry background, a Caucasian with shirt brown hair person stands, head and shoulders in frame. She isn't wearing a shirt and has heavy stage makeup and a silver cross painted across her forehead. The illustration looks like watercolour and pencil. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/153a0a03-e313-4a67-a498-e97a823ac334/anathema.png Illustration A Latine woman with dark hair looks slightly downwards, smiling. She wears glasses and a lacy black shirt with a high neckline. The portrait looks like pencil and watercolour. The background is a brownish grey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/f81dc97f-2a3e-4812-83d2-397ba8f08ac3/nat+anat.png Illustration In blocked black, white, and two shades of grey, a Black woman and Caucasian man embrace and kiss. The woman has her hair up and a flower in it and is wearing a Regency-style white dress and white lace gloves. The man has short blond hair and wears a white coat with black decorated cuffs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/352306e5-ae70-4a21-8229-96fa36f81f36/natasha+twirl.gif Illustration A gif shows a Black woman with dark hair up in a bun spins in a looping circle. She wears a white Regency-style evening dress, holding the edges of the overskirt out at her sides, it floating in the air as she spins. The drawing is made of white linework and pastel-textured colours in shades of black, purple, mauve, brown, and white. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/39648cec-479a-4c1b-bb3a-45214b4712c8/Screen+Shot+2023-03-28+at+4.15.46+PM.png Illustration A pixel art drawing of a sunset, the sun barely peeking out over the horizon. The bottom of the image is all black except for the parts where the sun turns it orange. The clouds are streaky and plentiful, going from yellow to purple to blue. There are some bushes and trees at the horizon and some large powerlines stretching from the upper right-hand corner to the sun in the lower left third of the image. There are lots of colours used. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/f36be707-1ecd-4ca9-8c63-b9ce94cab6fa/atwd+2+instagram+colours+adjusted.png Illustration In blocked shades of orange, yellow, brown, and black, an illustration of a man is formed. He stands shirtless, visible from the stomach up, smoking a cigarette and wearing a papakha (sheepskin hat). He stands with windows on either side of him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/1d484f2b-0af4-4094-bf13-b82887acbcc5/atwd+honey+3+no+signature.png Illustration In blocked shades of orange, yellow, brown, and black, an illustration of a man is formed. His shirtless back is visible, arms in the air as he dances. Light comes in through windows in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/072910f8-dca0-433d-96c0-821f5fe80e54/honey+instagram.png Illustration In blocked shades of orange, yellow, brown, and black, a man holds a papakha (sheepskin hat) above his head, both arms stretched upwards and his head leaning back. The viewer sees him from behind. He stands, shirtless, in a room with mottled light streaming in through windows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/76756b43-b0b1-41ef-8bf3-1406e18181b4/MINE+Bear+4_2_1.jpg Illustration A digital painting of a polar bear with a pink-orange background. The bear walks toward the viewer, who is looking down at the bear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/7b02252d-be85-411f-b34f-e1b1416bbaf3/orpheus+eurydice+spin.gif Illustration A gif shows a Caucasian man standing up from kneeling and twirling a Black woman in a circle. They both have black hair, hers long and loose with a small bow in it. The man holds a guitar strapped to his back and wears a white shirt and jeans. The woman wears a white crop top and a long yellow skirt. The gif is made of yellow linework and pastel-textured colours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/b4bd0f6d-4a1d-4202-927b-2fdbd6fd40a4/planets.jpg Illustration A four by two grid shows pen drawings of our solar system's planets. They are shaded with messy crosshatching and their names are written in a cursive style below each planet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/f1c34257-5b7c-45b5-996d-b088b63a2363/alix+feodorovna.png Illustration In thin blue and red lines is a sketch of a Caucasian woman wearing an elaborate jewelled kokoshnik and veil, strings of pearls, and off-the-shoulder late Victorian bodice, and sash. She has an absent expression and light curls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/01120421-1240-4988-a395-1a2667587aad/codelia+joan+bkgd+copy.jpg Illustration In blocked colours and thick lines, a brown-skinned girl with red hair stands in front of a blue door, wearing a white Edwardian dress with pink details and a ruffled collar. She wears a purple overdress, and holds a sword, hilt next to her face. Her eyes are downcast, red hair pinned up and a pink bow at the side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/c8624c02-a9f9-429d-ae2a-907ababacf75/erika.gif Illustration A gif shows an East Asian woman standing on a staircase, faced to the right and slowly turning to face the front. She has her brown hair half up, half down, with bangs. She wears a white Regency-style evening gown with lace falling from the front of the bodice and from the waistband. She holds the railing of the staircase. The image is in dark outlines and blocked colours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/641b6e80fee295095cdd987e/23eec59a-6e59-47d9-a096-4bbba52d0566/prior+walter%2C+my+love.png Illustration Against a grey background, a Caucasian man with short brown hair stands, looking up. He has his back to the viewer and is wearing white patterned scrubs.