It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin’ — Volume 2Make It Big in VegasVariant Cover Guest Art by @ta

It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin’ — Volume 2Make It Big in VegasVariant Cover Guest Art by @tarberrymentatsVariant Cover Concept and Design by @theyoungbuckArchive Links«« First | « Previous || Next » | Last »»Read IKROAH on Archive of Our OwnNotes / Original Pencils: There were a few different designs considered for my cover, and by a few I mean these: It was a VERY close call between the first and third options, but I ultimately went with the third because I already have “big vertical object as point of interest” planned for a different cover down the line and I didn’t want to be too redundant. The second option was deemed too difficult to execute well, and the fourth was just so perfect that I didn’t want to make the whole rest of the comic seem less good by comparison.The third design is actually an homage to the cover of the Batman comic Three Jokers, a comic that isn’t particularly good or notable in my opinion but is so absurd in concept that it’s sort of become an inside joke that I have with myself. Here’s the original:Anyway, after deciding on the third design, I had to make a full-size version based on my original half-size thumbnail:As you can see, I drew the background and foreground separately, and Victor was made bigger in the digitized version of the art than he is here. I also wound up switching the side that Agnes is holding the chip in! I had already drawn the hands, like that, but I wanted her scarred side to be in the reflection of the chip. I’m glad I drew them separately because it was very easy to just mirror that layer when it came to the final cover (and the charming doodle at the top was just filling empty space while watching a music video).As for the variant cover, please give a huge glamorous round of applause to my guest artists! When I needed  a pair of glamorous Vegas-ready outfits for Agnes, I turned to @theyoungbuck​ immediately for consultation and costume design, an absolute expert in this field.. He was also the artist who designed the composition for the variant cover, and you can see the original costume design and drafts of the cover here:All of this was designed in early January when I was largely between issues of the comic. We ultimately decided against the second draft, because if we went through the trouble of designing these outfits for Agnes and Cass then by god we were going to show them off.With the recent finale to Volume 1, over the last few days me and @tarberrymentats​ teamed up to bring that original draft to life, and viola! You’re looking at the glamorous results!It’s always a tremendous pleasure to collaborate with guests artists on issues of the comic, but I’m especially hoping to have a variant cover for each volume going forward because it’s just so much fun to do the artistic equivalent of taking a photo of somebody, then excitedly saying “alright, now let’s do a silly one.”See you all again with issue #15! -- source link

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