Book Cover (and process) for "In The Garden of Light and Shadow" by Cerece Rennie Murphy
Here's the cover along with the process images for the In the Garden of Light and Shadow cover for Cerece Rennie Murphy! This was a wonderfully awesome collaborative process with designing the main characters, designing the leg, and making the cover be what it is.
Fully rendered final!
back cover
5th rendering progress - adding in definition with clothing details, adding in foreground platform, starting to define background elements, and rendering the steampunk ship
4th rendering progress - grounding the character in space on the cover, adding story to head direction
3rd rendering progress - more tweaking
2nd rendering progress - tweaking small elements, adding clouds for distance and structure
1st rendering progress - starting to define form
chosen thumbnail!
initial rough sketches to define composition and initial impact.