I recently completed a book cover for Landon Alexander. He said that he wanted it to represent the turmoil of an African American man's life- as he struggles to preach the gospel, minister to others, faces temptation, and struggles to keep his family in order. I truly felt like God was showing me a picture of it as I read his description. We made an agreement, and I got started working.
I started with a sketch that he was happy with, overall. I also numbered the images and sent a description of the sketch with the images I used for reference(as this was a VERY rough sketch due to time constraints). Fortunately, he had seen my website and trusted my work and that the outcome would more closely resemble the reference images.
Next, I completed the drawing and created an aged looking background in Photoshop. I scanned the drawing and layered it on top of the background and began the fun yet painstaking task of
shading and coloring the areas to get the look that I wanted.
After this was approved, I completed the graphics and type with Adobe Illustrator and did my best to achieve a striking layout and type style that went with the subject.I was pleased with the finished product, and so was he. I'm glad that I could be used and blessed by this opportunity.
