Visions from the Edge: Artwork from Leo and the Magical Ball of Madness

The artwork created for Leo and the Magical Ball of Madness did not begin as illustration in the traditional sense. These images emerged alongside the writing, often before the words themselves, acting as visual anchors for ideas that were difficult to articulate directly.

Each image represents a moment of contact — with a world, a symbol, or a psychological state — rather than a literal scene. The Ball appears again and again, not always as an object, but as a presence: glowing, unstable, seductive. The environments shift between the grotesque and the dreamlike, reflecting the way imagination behaves when it moves beyond ordinary perception.

The figures within these images are not heroes in the classical sense. They are exposed, uncertain, often overwhelmed by the forces they’ve encountered. Perspective bends, scale collapses, and reality feels slightly misaligned — intentionally so. These distortions mirror the inner experience of exploring mysticism, symbolism, and altered states without a fixed centre.

This gallery is not a visual summary of the story, but a parallel narrative.
It shows how the world of Leo and the Magical Ball of Madness first revealed itself — in fragments, visions, and unstable images — long before it became a book.