Making of a Cover

To accompany Accent UK WESTERNoir series, we've decide to bring out a sister book.
It'll be called Tales of WESTERNoir fer all those stories and tales we just can't fit in the regular book.
The first issue is well under way and, fingers crossed, will be on sale at Thought Bubble this coming November.

So with that in mind I thought I'd show alla you folk just what we did to create the cover.

                                                         Started with an idea I had...

                                                                   That progressed....

                                                                   ...and progressed....

                                               

                                           ...trying to workout how the demon would look.

 

 Then I start inking in Manga Studio...

trying to get it just how I want it...

 ...until I'm pretty satisfied with the results...

 

I then pass over to Matt Soffe (artist, colourist, all round terrific chap, visit his blog here: -http://mygrimmbrother.blogspot.co.uk/ ) to put a heap of colours to it.
This makes my flat art come alive with such vibrancy.

When Matt has finished with it, we pass it on to Andy Bloor (demon designer,who is also a talented artist in his own right, visit his blog here: - http://andrewbloor.blogspot.co.uk/)  where he works his magic.
This version just didn't quite hit the mark though.
Dave and I thought the flames at the bottom distracted a bit from the image. loved the font and title though so we decided to keep that...

So Andy went away and had a quite think and came up with this version...which Dave and I liked a lot.

Andy thought about it some more and came back with another version with little tweaks here and there. Dave and I took one look at it and decided...
Yup!
We have our final cover.
Which, we think looks just amazing.
Don't it.