I’ve just submitted the second piece for my collaboration with John Fulton. The front cover for his story “Cold Black Heart”.
I’m trying to establish a slick workflow which at the moment looks like this:
- Receive the project brief.
- This step just involved reading the story and revisiting John’s requirements.
- Do research relating to the brief.
- For this I looked up medical diagrams of the human heart.
- Do thumbnails to brainstorm compositions.
- Select the best composition.
- I selected the first composition.
- Gather visual references related to the selected composition.
- I gathered visual references of women’s faces with what I felt were cold, distant expressions.
- Do construction studies.
- I skipped this step.
- Do perspective studies.
- I skipped this step.
- Do value studies.
- Do colour studies.
- I skipped this step since there would be minimal colour.
- Do the main illustration.
- Take a break.
- I had a couple of nights off.
- Final finishing details.