Bad Magic Unused Cover Rough

The process of creating a cover for a book is pretty different to comics. In comics, you do some roughs, send to an editor, get an approval and boom! cover done! In books… horrifically more complicated. Graphic designers get involved and the, ultimately, decided to take some art from inside the pages I’d drawn and use that. So, here’s one of the cover roughs I sent before I knew that was the process. Slightly cliched, but that’s fine. Coulda worked.