So we’re going a bit out of order for these and skipping over to the cover for Eliza since I had clear idea of what I wanted to do for it and I still don’t have a clear enough idea for “Consequences” to really start from. But this one I knew from the beginning I wanted to recreate the look of an old leather bound book, the ones with a portrait of one of the main/title characters on the cover stamped in goldleaf; originally I thought I’d try to find a sample texture but I managed to find a stock image that was perfect to use as a base (at least I’m pretty sure it’s a stock image, I tried 8 different samples at around 2:30am)
The drawing of Eliza herself went surprisingly smoothly though, I think I actually spent less time getting it to look as I wanted than I did tweaking the leather layer, I was a bit worried about trying to match Jlucy’s style of drawing faces since it’s so different from mine (especially in profile since I tend to make the features less pronounced). But I flipped between the reference picture I chose a lot (The one after Fujuju’s first night in London) and I’m really happy with how it turned out. My feeling about the lettering are a bit mixed though, I’m happy with how it turned out, but on the other hand I don’t really have anything specific in mind for the lettering on the rest of them, so it might be a tough act to follow. Oh and below the break there’s an alternate version where the goldleaf for the text matches better, but the texture is softer, I had a bit of trouble deciding which to go with
