Every once in a while, we’ll have Leo working his butt off on one cover, and we need to get ahead of a second one. For that, we bring in the always awesome RedPear. Three times in the last two years, she’s made magical art for us. It’s time to show off one of those pieces.
Note, because of how much work went into this one, we’re going to be a little less verbose when discussing it.
We had five sketches that we ultimately ended up passing on in order to get to the final piece.
Our sixth choice was the one that we ended up loving the most, and it was just fantastic:
Over the course of time after that, Red ended up doing a whole mess of changes to further the quality of the art. Check out the slideshow below to see all the changes that went into the art over time.
We finally ended up with a final piece that was beyond breathtaking.
I’m really hoping that Kaiyonani makes a big splash when her book comes out later this year!
Michael DeAngelo
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