...and I felt like sharing :D

Started with some random doodles to figure out the layout and all, which quickly became the ACTUAL cover artwork.



Yeah, I know spiralbound notebook :D Moving on to inking.



Then it was just a matter of using "replace color" and then "brightness/contrast".... and tedious "polygonal lasso tool" to mark all the black-to-be areas. Also, I trimmed the image after that.



And finally colored it and added the text. I might still tweak it a little tomorrow but yay, my first ever cover is done :D



This is the "most likely" final version, trimmed to what it should look like in print.

*hopes no one minds the post but then this IS the art forum* :D

Your process from beginning to end looks really interesting.

I've never seen lineart being done that way.

Thanks for sharing. :)

Yeah, I usually draw on printer paper so that I don't have to ink and just scan raw pencils, but I liked the sketch enough to develop it further and since I don't have a lightbox, I couldn't trace it to clear paper without inking this first so I thought "what the hell" and just used that :D

All you need to make sure of is that the lines on the paper are blue or green and not grey :D

I think it's really great except for the hand. Something about it seems lumpy. Just not very defined. However, I agree with the above poster, seeing the progress from start to finish is pretty cool, would be awesome if people showcased their artwork like this more, it's really neat.

Thanks, I'll cook up something similar next time I'm working on a cover or some art (sadly didn't have time to draw recently).

Looks really cool. I like how you showed us the process, and not just the finished product. Nice job!

Really nice job!