AH stuff :) (Patreon)

Starlight soldiers comic preview! I was aiming to give the game a clear setting and aesthetic, something I never did in the comic (whoops!)

(I love these colours so much!!!)

Used this for the backgrounds: https://niko-3d-models.itch.io/low-poly-futuristic-city-assets

And some book cover thumbnails, when we were throwing around ideas:

The comparison covers my editor showed me as references both had bright colours, but the following popped into my head and i really liked it (even though I wasn't quite sure if it was okay to only have Sunati on the cover) so I sent it along anyway.

Theses sketches went around to marketing, and they really liked Glowey Eyes Sunati too, but they also wanted Austen in there somewhere.

I tried a new composition with a focus on Sunati's eyes, but also with Austen:

But the marketing team preferred the original composition, and wanted Austen added to the back instead:

Marketing really liked this, so that's what we went ahead with!

(I was slightly concerned that this isn't the sort of cover I'd pick up in a bookstore expecting a romance - but marketing was very confident that this cover would be very good for the US teen graphic novel market, and would get it placed appropriately in stores.)

Progress

And for some reason I didn't think to save any of the wips with bleed showing, but here's the full final file. They then add the text/effects/etc.