Abigail Spells jacket continued

As some of you might remember from this post, I've been working on the jacket image for my new book Abigail Spells. After some consideration, the designer had the good idea to make the cover more poster-like. She sent me this layout idea, incorporating my previous sketches into a new design:



I like the simple, pared down design... so I made another sketch, blowing up the characters a little and hand lettering the title:



Once we agreed that this design worked for both of us, I went about tracing the image once more to transfer it onto my paper. I separated the image of the characters and the type, so that they can be used separately if need be:



Next I flipped over the tracing and penciled in the underside of the drawing:



Then I flipped it over again and traced the image a third time, onto my paper. I started laying down the under painting:



As I slowly layered color ideas, I started to get a sense for the palette and patterns I wanted to use:



Again, slowly layering color in place:



Stay tuned for the final steps next week!