The Illustrated Book of Southern Sayings

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An illustrated collection of Southern expressions exploring how language can shape identity and influence culture. Characters, environments, props, and colors were drawn and painted digitally based on ideas that came to mind from a list of sayings my friend collected when she moved to Tennessee. Designed the eBook for publishing, including covers, graphic elements, layout, and typesetting.

The gallery below is a selection of some of my favorite drawings from the book.

"They Are No Spring Chickens"

"It's like making sausage, mighty ugly when you're making it but mighty good when it's done"

"The squeaky wheel gets greased first"

"Knows what side the bread is buttered on"

"Fitting you like socks on a rooster"

"Didn't fall off the turnip truck yesterday"

"Hang around the barbershop long enough, you'll get a haircut"

"Hungry enough to eat the north end of a south bound goat"

"Coming out smelling like a rose"

"Circling the drain"

"Country as a turnip green"

Crawfish Boil

"Dog trying to pass a peach seed"

"Got their fingers in so many different pies"

"People in hell want ice water"

"Knee-high to a grasshopper"

"Put the screws to him"

"Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs"

"Shooting from the hip"

"There's more than one way to skin a cat"

"Theres more than one way to skin a cat"

"There's more than one way to skin a cat"

"A cow pissing on a flat rock"

"Once you let the genie out of the bottle, you have to put it back in"