Here’s the cover I recently did for David Elliott’s hilarious book The Transmogrification of Roscoe Wizzle. Click here to see how the whole cover creation process happened.
First I started off with a whole bunch of character sketches.
Then I started putting the characters into a setting from the book and trying some different title treatments.
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Next we narrowed it down to the following two cover ideas.
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We picked this one to move forward with, so I started by just filling in some flat colors.
Then I actually painted it two different ways. First I painted it in Corel Painter using the sponge brushes. Click it to get a closer look.
Then I did a more stylized/flat/textured version, which is what we ended up going with.