Concept Drawing for R.S. Guthrie’s Black Beast

filed in Book Artwork and Illustrations, Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork on Mar.10, 2011

Part of yesterday’s work: A Character Concept Drawing for R.S. Guthrie’s upcoming novel Black Beast. It is still a tad cartoonish so it doesn’t blend into the realism of the rest of the cover illustration. Of course hopefully there will never be/never has been a creature like this. So making it “real” gets a little tricky, though shadowing and reducing the symmetry of the original drawing helps.

Onward. Hopefully this book cover illustration and the lettering will get finished today and Guthrie’s book will be on its way to Kindle as well as a print edition.

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Duncan Long is a book cover artist and illustrator for PS Publishing, Pocket Books, Solomon Press, Fort Ross, HarperCollins, and many self-published authors. See more of his book cover artwork and illustrations at: Book Cover Artwork and Illustrations
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