Here’s a recent book cover I created for Irene Gallo of Tor Books.
The Point Man is the original story that came before my first job with Irene, The Long Man, of which I also did the cover for, earlier this year. Both novels were written by acclaimed comic book and screenwriter Steven Englehart.
An interesting thing that happened while working on this job was that I had to totally shift direction when it was about 80% complete, because the editor wanted some changes that would better reflect the story within. Fortunately, Irene let me take a couple weeks off to get the flaming magic skull version out of my system; I really doubt I could have done as good of a job if I had to immediately re-do the piece.
While I wasn’t happy with that decision originally, I am glad that things turned out the way they did. This is my favorite cover to date, but I hope to top it in the near future!
Best,
frank
11 Comments
Add Yours →WOW Frank!….great site. Really appreciate you taking the time to show us your process and thoughts behind these pieces. Appreciate it.
i appreciated the explanation of your process.
woah this blew my mind. thanks for the explanation into your process!
AH THIS STUFF IS THE STUFF BRA
awesome image.
Great post, Frank.
Solid , top to bottom.
Man, that's just killer! I like the girl looking off in the final version and the highlights look great.
You're making us all look bad. This is incredible stuff.
thanks for sharing your thoughts with us on this Frank. Hearing some of the things you say help me avoid ignoring my instincts and playing it safe.
i've been visting your site ever since it got featured on Communication Arts….
Great work and it's and really neat that you take time out to put it up here on your site..little background / art process etc..
Amazing like always.