From Concept to Cover

As you probably noticed yesterday, we have a brand new cover for the project, drawn by David Tinto and colored by Ylenia Di Napoli.

Today I wanted to show you the different concepts we played with until we decided on the eventual cover.

The core idea was to create an epic cover that would showcase the most important characters featured in the first batch of short stories.

David sketched out the following proposals for us:

Obviously, the last sketch is the one we decided to go with. David developed the concept further in his first pencils.

Since his pencils were very clear and we wanted the new cover to go out fairly fast, Ylenia took over and added digital inks in Photoshop and produced the color version that you are by now all familiar with:

And there you have it. The evolution of a comic book cover.