First Draft

I've started working on the first page. The cover so to say to get a general idea of the project and a gist of what it'll eventually look like. For days I was thinking about who Morgan should be and what she should look like. Because I can't draw I plan to use photo's and images and manipulate them into my aesthetic.

Eventually I landed on Eva Green. Because I like the certain kind of mystery that surrounds her and I think that makes her a great fit for playing a sorceress in my book.

As I start working on Morgan's look through tutorials this is the first look that pops out. What I like about the image that I have created is that it shows the water-like paint look very well, especially in the lower part. What I dislike about the image is that it's still too much like a photograph and it doesn't look dreamy/auqarelle enough.

This is starting to look a lot more like how I want the book to look. The defining of the hair is better this way and I like that it's sharp and that you still see the contours properly, I don't want it to look smudgey.

I played around with the top Layer and added one in a Linear burn to give it a more worn out look. This is has become the General aesthetic that I will be gearing the whole books towards. Throughout I've been experimenting with making it look more like ink on the paper. But to no avail. This is what I'm working with because I like the look, I think the colors look great and it shows a certain sense of mystery.