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This was the alternate sketch for a cover I just finished. This version is actually not complete- but I still like it, sketchy as it is. Once the typography and cropping is done at the publishers I will put the "real" cover up on the blog, it was for Kevin Weir's Endless Hunger . The books sound a lot like a Harry Dresden so I am anxious to read it :D (No, we don't get the manuscript ahead of time, just a para or two and some descriptions.)

It's The Relativity Bomb and it should be out Very Soon Now. Working today on another cover :O

It's for a upcoming book, The Otherness Factor by Arlene Marks, published by Edge-Tesseract, and the book sounds very good--I need to actually buy the first book in the series so I can catch up.  This is a cover with a 3d undercoat and tons of Photoshop painting on top--this let me get it done and clean in about 5 days, though they were full days. Ixbeth, the scientist on the left, is actually the old V3 model with Akutenshi7 hands. Neither looks like the original.:D That's a variation on Pixeluna's Angelie on the right, too, used with her permission. Pixeluna is as angelic as her namesake! (She sells products at Daz3d now if you want to check out her 3d character sets ). Here is the base file for Lania: (You can still see the embroidery and the collar in the final). Here is the early version/rough for Ixbeth, she wasn't catlike enough at this stage: So I found this guy: (He's got great fur). And here is Akutenshi's hand--I'm going to use th...

The type will change (there is a legacy font that the publisher will pop on there) and it's possible there are tweaks left to do, but the tenth book in the Okal Rel saga is done. It's a great series--I actually own large parts of it for my own reading pleasure; it has great characters and a lot of adventure. It's definitely an adult reading experience, though, so be warned, though it's not trashy at all.