Alternate Boneyard Covers, Color Sketches (Patreon)

     Here's another look at my "process". I always do multiple cover designs before settling on one that works best. (Well, almost always. There have been a couple of times when I liked the first thing I sketched and went with it. Unfortunately, that's rare.)  I always do them small (that's why they're called thumbnails), which is standard. It's much easier--and faster-- to make corrections and do multiple versions on a small scale than full size. Especially the color part. Both of the designs for Boneyard #27 at top left went unused, and you can see that the first one was aborted midway. The issue had the gang (except for Paris) using Glump's device to hop between realities, so we see them as different versions of themselves. The idea of the first design was that we see three of these versions: their superhero selves, stone age versions of them, and futuristic cyborgs. I think I was concerned that it wouldn't read, at least not without putting lines between the three sections, so I bailed on it. The second one actually looks fine to me; I don't recall why I rejected it. The bottom row shows more variations on a theme. I knew the elements I wanted, it was just a matter of arranging them for best dramatic effect. I'm actually not crazy about collage-style covers; my preference is for a representation of a single moment in the story, or an image that represents the central theme. But this was for the color edition of Vol. 4, so I was trying to capture the general feel and thrust of a whole 4-story arc. Anyway, let me know if this is at all interesting, and if you like seeing this sort of thing.