I am still experimenting with the layout of the book; I started adding a bit of colour behind some of the text to make the design more interesting. The first sketch illustrates moment Nicholas the Aye-aye’s head starts transforming into the head of Simone.

So this is the final version of the cover, for the time being at least. I went for a green light source, trying to make it a bit moody. Though it sort of made it look like the cover for a teenage vampire novel.

I started working on the cover for Coma Deer this week. I only worked in black and white so far to get the values working, but I’ll start adding some colour pretty soon.

Here are a couple of examples for the layout of my book -nothing is final yet. I didn’t give layout much thought in the planning process, and I don’t think I even included time for doing layout on my schedule. But it’s actually quite an extensive field and I still have a lot to learn.…

Here’s some drawings for the first few pages of the book.

These are some of the first creature Jamie encounters in Coma.

Here’s two drawings I did of Jamie running.

I’ve posted these before, but I did some modifications to the colours after getting feedback from my supervisor.

I did an inked version of the deer sketch that I posted earlier. I was a little dissatisfied with the flat colouring on the earlier tests for the book, so I decided to try something new. Here I added some quick variation and texture into the colour, to add some more life to the illustration.…