So, just finished with the cover art for my children's book "The Downhill Derby". It's getting a script revision, and a storyboard tweak too. I don't imagine this will be finished any time soon as the top priority is finishing my board game. I hope to have this finished by the time I graduate though, which will be about a year and a half more to go. School life doesn't give much free time to personal or side projects :P Oh well, such as life.
This was going to be my cover art, until I was inspired today. It was a huge hurdle to get inspired btw. I had to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator for the first time. I have always hated Illustrator and it's because I don't know what the heck I'm doing. It's more geared towards the designer mind set and not the artists mind set. Anyways, I fought through it, and figured how to at least make the title art. After that long painful moment, I must have found some inner passion and strength and after a few hours fighting with gradients, textures, colors, and shapes I managed to improve this original idea with the one you see on top. I thank God, and God willing this will someday be read by some little kid and make his day.
Nice man! Those are some diverse set of characters you got there! Can't wait for its completion!
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