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illustrated football articles? what's not to like?!

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illustrated football articles? what's not to like?!

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anyone excited for 152 pages of full colour illustrated football writing?

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Dan Leydon @danleydon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

anyone excited for 152 pages of full colour illustrated football writing?

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This is feeling the best cover so far, it combines text blocks and art so it actually sums up the contents

Dan Leydon @danleydon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've been writing a kids book for the past year or three and it is the hardest thing I've ever tried.

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Dan Leydon @danleydon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Trying to figure out the cover of my new book, starting to feel like it needs a variety of art instead of one piece

Dan Leydon @danleydon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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* new book announcement * football ARTicles a collection of illustrated articles about modern football 152 pages 32 articles 50x art 40k words

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Dan Leydon @danleydon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

alternate cover

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Dan Leydon @danleydon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

* new book announcement * football ARTicles a collection of illustrated articles about modern football 152 pages 32 articles 50x art 40k words

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Dan Leydon @danleydon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m looking into releasing my entire Substack catalogue as a book, shipping globally from my online shop Would be an A5 format, paperback, around 150 pages, full colour interiors, matt lam exteriors, perfect bind It’s basically already layed out, I’m just moving everything around

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Dan Leydon @danleydon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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Athlete Animation 🎥

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I wanted to visualise the paralysis of choice that seemed to dog Darwin when he was at Liverpool. I chose a splintering of realities to present the myriad options available to him when through on goal.

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I've had multiple knee injuries & operations, I used that experience to write about R9 & his path around his own injury. I've also created 3 illustrations to go with it. I've tried to get more personal in my work and this is something I took longer than usual to put together.

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Relic 01: Ronaldo's Post-op Knee

R9 is 50 today 🇧🇷 I wrote about his knee injury and how he picked a path past it (3x illustrations) danleydon.substack.com/p/ronaldo-st...

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How O Fenômeno learned to embrace his joints

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Relic 01: Ronaldo's Post-op Knee

R9 is 50 today 🇧🇷 I wrote about his knee injury and how he picked a path past it (3x illustrations) danleydon.substack.com/p/ronaldo-st...

danleydon.substack.com

How O Fenômeno learned to embrace his joints

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Major League Soccer asked me to create artwork ahead of the home debut of Son Heung-min. In the thread below I'll show the process behind the artwork...

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Free PDF of illustrated football articles, perfect for reading on a tablet

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Major League Soccer asked me to create artwork ahead of the home debut of Son Heung-min. In the thread below I'll show the process behind the artwork...

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Dan Leydon @danleydon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

here's the third batch of vector pieces

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vector experiment

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Dan Leydon @danleydon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Vector poster experiment Putting time into learning more about graphic design really, I always leaned into illustration so this side of things scares me a bit. Layout has always been an afterthought in my work. I only concentrated on Pedro here detail wise.

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Dan Leydon @danleydon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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Dan Leydon @danleydon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

vector experiment, still too much like the work of @daveflanagan.bsky.social John Sheahan and Merged Visible but I'm getting somewhere, I know what to move away from to develop a strong style