Hello, friends! Welcome back and today, I have a special treat for all of you. The Sunnyville Stories Super Special #2 has been funded through Kickstarter. (You can still pledge to the Kickstarter too.) I have also designed the cover and how that came to be was quite a process. I’ll share today how we got started on making the cover to the second Super Special!
First, I needed an idea. I had something I had wanted to use for awhile. It was the album cover to Ringo Star’s 1974 album “Goodnight, Vienna”.
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Goodnight Vienna album cover
In case you didn’t figure it out, that album cover references the 1951 science fiction movie “The Day The Earth Stood Still”. Moving on, I started working out drawings of what the cover would look like. The basic idea was I’d have Rusty dressed in a spacesuit and the giant robot Gort next to him.
I swear that it took many tries to get Gort right.
This sketch was the final design I decided to go with. It matched what was in my head. Some out there think I’m much too stupid or have very bad technical ability – that is NOT true. I put a lot of thought into my work, be it a drawing, a comics page or a more complex illustration. Since this cover is for a Kickstarter comic, I wanted to make sure it was my best effort.
I then selected a piece of 11 x 15 inch watercolor paper and prepared to get drawing…but that will be for next time.
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