OOEW New Cover and WIPs (Patreon)

A fair amount of you probably know, but the KickStarter wrapped up yesterday and it was successful enough that I can do a mini-comic run of Oren and the One-Eyed Wolf!

It needed a real cover of course, and I had a really great time working on this one!

Here’s a GIF with screenshots of each ‘stage’ in order while I worked.

^ Here's the initial sketch/inks.

^ First, I put down the characters' flat colors and masked out the grass on a separate layer. Then I started figuring out the colors of the sky and then the grassy hill/middle ground.

^ Working from the back forward, I finished the sky and moved on to Oren's shadows/highlights. The highlighted grass (in orange) is on a new layer to make it easier to work on individual blades that might be getting hit by some light over the ridge. The final step here was coloring the lineart on Oren and the grass.

^ Moving on to the foreground, young Gristle first gets shadows, then highlights, with the final stage being coloring his lineart and adjusting the overall contrast/levels to add a bit more punch.