Wednesday, January 4, 2012

It Takes A Witch

It Takes A Witch is my latest illustrated book cover - out now.
This is the first in this new witchcraft mystery series by Heather Blake.  
After reading the book description from the client, and getting a bit of some art direction from them, it came to these 2 sketches- one exterior and one interior-



 Interior it is. Here is the final art.  As always with these things, I paint lots of extra "bleed" all around the sides- this gives my client a lot to play with when it comes to cropping the image in the final layout.

 After a bit of tweaking some colors in photoshop (which includes making our cover star a darker brunette and turning her brown eyes blue... isnt that a song?), here is the final book cover design-


Have a good read!

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