PoaH cover original

This is the uncut image I created for the second book in the Rebirth Trilogy, Path of a Hero. Same story here for starting as it was with the WoF cover: I did a sketch on paper and transfered it to the computer, then used the path tool in GIMP to go around and fill in portions with gray. I stuck with the same concept I used for the first cover, which was duplicating the layer twice and altering the color of layers 2 and 3, then using the blur feature and adding lighting effects.

Something I did differently here was to add an additional layer of colored detail (the green and silver swirls on the wings and body), something I did not do with the other two covers. I liked the figure very much in this image but the detail didn't seem nearly as snazzy as the first cover image, so I was trying to help spice it up. It didn't come out quite like I'd pictured it, but I still think it was alright. Unfortunately, the best parts of the detail, in my opinion, ended up getting sacrificed when it came time to crop the image down for the cover template.

This image is intended to be of the character Terezom, hence the gray color and robe. The ball of green light in his hand is supposed to look like a magic spell, which might be obvious. The theme I decided on for each of the three covers was the three Heroes; the cover of each book features the respective Hero that is introduced at that point in the story. I liked this theme and it worked out well for both the story and cover designs, as it gave me something to help bind the art of the three together so that they were more relevant to each other. I also enjoyed developing this style of art, even though it takes a while to complete with eyestrain involved. It allowed me a lot of space to play with the flow of lines in a 2D kind of way.