Covering the Ghouls – Part 1


Coming up with a front cover illustration was more challenging than coming up with the back cover illustration. Not surprising. Most people would never take a look at the back cover if they hadn’t found the front cover intriguing. A front cover has to catch a buyer’s eye. It can’t be too busy or the mind will take too long to register it. It can’t be too simple or the mind won’t be interested.

I started the process by doing a series of thumbnails that I ran past Dan, the author, and Adam, our editor/publisher. This is the first one. I’ll be showing the others over the next few days.

Backing Up the Ghouls – Part 9


Work went pretty quickly from here. I copied over the flat colors the Photoshop file of my earlier attempt at coloring this image. I had to make a few adjustments since the new scan didn’t match the scan of the original pencils. And, obviously, some of the colors needed to be changed to go with the new base colors.

Backing Up the Ghouls – Part 8


Having decided that the previous coloring track wasn’t working I stepped away from the computer and went back to work on the original pencil illustration. I put my colored pencils to work. I tossed down some solid black lines. Things started looking better already.