Before I release it to the public, I wanted you to see the final art for the new EiAD book — the Kickstarter for which ends next week. I’m absolutely overjoyed with the way that it turned out — mainly because this one took a lot of thinking and re-thinking before I thought it was ready.
It went through two previous iterations before reaching the point that I thought it would make the perfect book cover. Here’s a look at the progression…
As you can tell, I really like wraparound covers. That means the front cover and the back cover are one continuous image. (The front cover is on the right-hand side of the image.)
In the first pass, I had the scene set up in the Evil Inc office, and Iron Dragon and Sobek-Ra was reacting to Desi. (And if you look closely at the desk, you’ll see that their reaction is extremely enthusiastic.)
But something wasn’t clicking for me. I redrew Desi to re-emphasize the title of the book (“Stick ’Em Up”), and I momentarily gave up on the idea of the wraparound cover.
But it still wasn’t… right.
So I reached out to supercolorist Alex Heberling and asked for some advice.
Alex suggested changing the scene from the office to a bank vault — and changing the supervillains to bank guards. The idea to show more after-effects from the raised desk (rather than the effects in progress) also came from Alex.
I redrew the illustration, and I received the final a few hours ago.
That’s my cover.