Corktown #1 cover

[ScottEwen]

[Veritas71]

Definitely like the shadow as the dark side of her nature.

[slyaguilar]

Nice, I love the concept. I have a nit-pick. The shadow itself doesn't appear to be following the perspective of the ground so it reads like it's coming up off the ground. It actually works better in the thumbnail. If this was your intention though, then please disregard my OCD.

[eureka]

Looks Great!!

[ScottEwen]

[ScottEwen]

I had a specific idea in mind of how I wanted the cover to be colored, so I did a mock-up for the colorist. I told him he's free to disregard whatever I had and redo it, though:

[GuntherGoltz]

Man, I always love your stuff. You have a very clear voice.

[Veritas71]

I think the desaturated colors really gives it a desolate feel. Me likey!

[ghostcat]

Damn, that's awesome. Such a cool mood.
Couple things:
1. Is she a ghost/transluscent? If not, I wouldn't do the fade to light blue lineart on her. It makes her look really ethereal against the black lineart in the background. If that was your intention, then good job!
2. The shadow needs to be more be elongated where it meets her feet, and compress more as it recedes into the background. As it is, it looks like it should only be going back about 10 feet rather than the 50 yards or so that the background implies. This is hard to express, so I did a quick sketch up to get it across better:


3. I'd ease up a bit on the ripped clothes. There is more fabric hanging off her than would be there if her clothes were intact. It makes it look a little like tufts of fur.

[underwearhero]

i'm digging this, especially in color, I do think the shadow head could be a bit smaller, other than that no crits.

[Terminator X]

Man, I really like this. I haven't seen any of your stuff in a while, as I don't pop in here much any more, but I was following that webcomic you were drawing for a bit and this piece tops the hell out of that stuff.

I agree with Ghostcat on the shadow, but only because he pointed it out. I would've never noticed that on my own.

Will this be a book we can buy and junk?

[dfbovey]

Looking good, Scott. That's a really nice cover. Agree with ghostcat on the shadow distortion though.

[ScottEwen]

Will this be a book we can buy and junk?

Turns out yes. Alterna Comics just picked the book up and it will be out this summer.

I'm going to redo the pages I've already done and I will probably redo this cover (or at the very least, fix the perspective on the shadow).

Thanks everyone for your help!

[ScottEwen]

Here's the cover with redone colors by Dave Ganjamie, by the way. I designed the logo and lettering.

[Popninja]

Wow. Except for that shadow, which really looks like it's going back too far, this is a really good cover. That cover would totally draw me in to see what's inside. Nice work, Scott.