Project JKF-1: The Bull In The Basement Book Cover

This book cover piece is for a John Fulton short story called “The Bull In The Basement”.

For this one I experimented with a major change in my workflow, namely, I skipped the line drawing phase and went straight into painting shapes.

Here are the thumbnail sketches I did for idea generation:

I’ve been finding that doing studies is so useful, so here’s a few more:

This is the major change in my workflow, no line drawing, straight into painting shapes:

I couldn’t resist a few lines here:

On this occasion shape painting probably increased my speed by about 30%.  Sounds too good to be true.  Let’s see if it works again on the next piece!

 

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