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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 homogeneity...
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...
Cover Art Evolution – Zack Jackson, part 4
With the final design agreed upon, Scott Christian Sava provided me with some quick color ideas. He scanned the sketches into Photoshop and used that software to color the image quickly, to give me an idea where he was thinking of going once he started putting brush...
Cover Art Evolution – Zack Jackson, part 3
After tweaking the design of the four main characters, cover artist Scott Christian Sava sent me a sketch that included background elements. You can see the sun rising (or setting) over snow-capped mountains behind the protagonists. They've crashed on a planet called...