The explorations of an artloader.
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.
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This book cover is for a short story called The Whisperer by John Fulton.
I tweaked my illustration workflow again here by putting more energy into doing more studies. Each study focussing on one particular component of the illustration.
I’ve been trying to power-up my painting skills with this digital painting of a blonde girl on a dark blue background. Done in Clip Studio Paint.
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Here’s another book cover for my author friend John K. Fulton. The title of this story is “Star Warrior II”.
For this piece, I wanted to make sure that I had a much stronger value contrast than in the last piece.
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This is another book cover for my project with John Fulton. John’s short story is called “The View From The Window”.
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Here’s another book cover for my project with John K. Fulton. The short story is called Holiday In Camulodunum:
Here’s my process:
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I’ve just submitted the second piece for my collaboration with John Fulton. The front cover for his story “Cold Black Heart”.
I’ve completed the Time For Tea cover for John Fulton and emailed it to him for approval. Hopefully the formatting etc … is correct.
This piece took me a lot longer than anticipated but has allowed me to cobble together the beginnings of a workflow.
Next will be a greyscale painting for the interior of the story.
Not being convinced about the composition, I’ve reworked this piece a bit by flipping it horizontally and also removing the teaspoon.
Also, the lighting is now darker and more yellow instead of orange.
I’m finally starting to get moving on the short story project with John Fulton.
Here is an in progress update on the first book cover, I’m probably 50% of the way through it. The colour block-ins are done, next come the details.