If you haven't heard of Ryan Graudin's book, it's set in an alternate reality where Hitler won, and the story follows a girl who can shape-shift and joins a motorcycle race to kill Hitler. I loved it when I got to borrow a copy, and I'm terrified of how everything's going to go down in the sequel. It's a book that just lingers in your mind for days.

Since I loved it so much, I wanted to letter a quote from it. The quote pertains to a bunch of wolf tattoos that Yael has on her arms, with each wolf representing an important person in her life. Then I got the idea to do the lettering inside a running wolf, as a small nod to Yael's tattoos. 

Drawing the wolf was a struggle for me, because I can't draw things. I tried my best, and I felt so accomplished with what I ended up with. 

I played around with an unconventional crossbar for the capital "h" for the words beside the "wolves," to create something different from the rest of the words. And having the capital "r" of "rode" extend to the "e" was a fun touch. 

At the beginning, I meant it to be a watercolor piece, because the murky texture I had in mind suited the tone of the story for me. But I had done it too small, and I didn't do a good job painting it, and I couldn't salvage it all. 

I ended up scanning the page and putting it in Illustrator. I remembered to put guides first, and then spent hours working with the Pen tool, and after adding some texture and a paper background, I was done.