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Second cover painting for the Grey Tower Trilogy novels, "Dark Rift." You can find the book here to see how the full cover turned out: amzn.to/2sUpuSX
After successfully pulling off the first cover, I was told I needed to get done with the next two covers by June. I was given the assignment in April. The first cover took me about a month because I could only work on these covers for an hour a day. I have a storyboard job that gets in the way.
To make things even more difficult on myself, unlike the first cover, where I found the reference ahead of time and used it as a basis for the rough idea of what the cover may look like, I decided to do something different. I drew what I wanted to draw first and then I found the reference the might match what I wanted. This eventually made it three times more difficult because there was no reference I can simply use straight. I had to use bits and pieces from tons of different reference.
On top of that, I had ZERO idea what this cover should look like. I must have draw at least ten different versions of this cover before coming up with this one. Originally I was going to draw the woman, seemingly being enticed to the "dark side," by a demon. It's part of the what happens in the story. Problem was, that when I drew that image, it never looked right.
The cover needed to say these things: Sexy, bad ass female protagonist (who women want to be, and guys would like to be with), in World War 2 but one that has fantasy elements like wizards and magical beasts. Well, the first cover kinda set that up so I had a little bit of leeway with this one. This book is also the Empire Strikes Back of the story where the bad guys raise hell and "win." Creating a major set back for the good guys.
How do I show all this?
I remembered that a dragon gets introduced in the story. Once I realized that, I abandoned the demon idea, decided to use a dragon instead and show all hell breaking loose. The cover is red to show that things get dangerous. The woman is all torn up to show that how dangerous, but he attitude is that of someone who's moving forward in spite of what she's been through.
Again, I hope this cover makes audiences curious about the book. What do you think?
After successfully pulling off the first cover, I was told I needed to get done with the next two covers by June. I was given the assignment in April. The first cover took me about a month because I could only work on these covers for an hour a day. I have a storyboard job that gets in the way.
To make things even more difficult on myself, unlike the first cover, where I found the reference ahead of time and used it as a basis for the rough idea of what the cover may look like, I decided to do something different. I drew what I wanted to draw first and then I found the reference the might match what I wanted. This eventually made it three times more difficult because there was no reference I can simply use straight. I had to use bits and pieces from tons of different reference.
On top of that, I had ZERO idea what this cover should look like. I must have draw at least ten different versions of this cover before coming up with this one. Originally I was going to draw the woman, seemingly being enticed to the "dark side," by a demon. It's part of the what happens in the story. Problem was, that when I drew that image, it never looked right.
The cover needed to say these things: Sexy, bad ass female protagonist (who women want to be, and guys would like to be with), in World War 2 but one that has fantasy elements like wizards and magical beasts. Well, the first cover kinda set that up so I had a little bit of leeway with this one. This book is also the Empire Strikes Back of the story where the bad guys raise hell and "win." Creating a major set back for the good guys.
How do I show all this?
I remembered that a dragon gets introduced in the story. Once I realized that, I abandoned the demon idea, decided to use a dragon instead and show all hell breaking loose. The cover is red to show that things get dangerous. The woman is all torn up to show that how dangerous, but he attitude is that of someone who's moving forward in spite of what she's been through.
Again, I hope this cover makes audiences curious about the book. What do you think?
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