Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Howard Lovecraft Cover



Which brings me to my latest piece which will be a new cover in Bruce Brown's Howard Lovecraft series.

Seeing as this is one of my more realised pictures of late, I thought it might be nice to show the steps I took to come up with the final image.

The brief was to have the characters posing in a Victorian style portrait. I immediately sketched this... 


...which then became this...


At this point my uni assignments and work began to take over my life so I left the picture for a while, which I guess turned out to be a good thing as it gave me a chance to imagine how it might eventuate.
Along came my holiday break and I get a couple of days to myself...


After finalising the characters in Photoshop I needed the background...