Cover Art Evolution – Zack Jackson, part 10

And the front cover is finished! The artist, Scott Christian Sava, added visible breath to Mungus and detailed the snow. I think it looks pretty fantastic. Not only will serve as an eye-catching cover (I hope), but it’ll look great on my wall since it’s a...

Cover Art Evolution – Zack Jackson, part 9

The front cover is almost finished! You can see here the background is colored in. In my initial vision, the mountains were more classical, snow-capped, jagged peaks. In the painting, they’ve taken on a more mesa-like appearance. I asked the artist, Scott...

Cover Art Evolution – Zack Jackson, Part 8

I got to see Mungus colored and Ix colored on the same day, so I won’t split that into two different posts. It’s pretty amazing to see my character come to life like this. At this point, I’m pretty much just sending feedback that says “Wow,...

Cover Art Evolution – Zack Jackson, part 7

I hope everyone had a great Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Solstice, or whatever end-of-year religious/secular holiday you celebrate. My Christmas was great. So here we are, 2012. The manuscript for Zack Jackson & the Cult of Athos has had its first read through,...

Cover Art Evolution – Zack Jackson, part 6

After painting Zack, Scott Christian Sava painted Jenny. Despite being from a monstly-French habitat, I decided depict the character with darker skin and almond-shaped eyes because I figure two thousand years from now, we’ll probably have a little more...

Cover Art Evolution – Zack Jackson, part 5

Shortly after I gave the go-ahead on the photoshop colored-version, I received my first look at the painting in-progress. Scott Christian Sava modeled Zack on one of his sons, aging him up a bit (by about four years). All the kids basically wear cultural variations of...