The Dark God Series: Behind the Scenes

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Cover for Servant

In this post, I show the process from sketch to final illustration.

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Cover artist for the first edition published by Tor Books

The fabulous Raymond Swanland! I absolutely love his style, and can’t tell you how excited I was to hear he was doing my cover. Besides being a killer illustrator, he’s just a nice guy. I blogged about some of his other art here. Click the image to see a bigger view.

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Cover for Curse

In this post, I show the process of creating Curse’s cover and some important lessons learned about micromanaging.

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Cover for Raveler

In this post, I show some of the inspiration and process of creating the cover.

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“Hunger” by Dixon Leavitt

Dixon Leavitt is an amazing artist. He recently emailed me saying: “Sometimes I just start sketching with no plan in mind. This just popped out. Thought you’d like to see it.”

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See the steps to its creation here: http://dixondoodles.blogspot.com/2011/11/creation-of-hunger-from-servant-of-dark.html. Click the image to see a larger version.

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What about Servant of a Dark God?

For those wondering how this book fits with Servant of a Dark God, the Dark God series is being re-released by Blacksword Books, my own imprint. You can read about why I’m doing this here. Why I’m going indie for the next little while here. And what changes I’ve made to bring the book back to my original vision here. I think readers are going to love the author’s cut.

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