A book needs a cover and I certainly wasn’t going to use any of the existing chapter covers for the printed book. But what to put on a cover? Vilga is the only main character of the first couple chapters (not counting Tuck who gets one chapter to himself) – so it was obvious she’d be the focus.

I made a few sketches to brainstorm ideas.

I decided which ones I liked best and made them into more fleshed-out sketches:

Despite the good reactions I wasn’t completely convinced by it. I just couldn’t think of a way to make covers for following volumes of the comic that would fit it, but feature different characrters.
I also had a feeling that I’d like the cover to be more claustrophobic, with camera closer to the character, like in one of the earlier designs. So I made a new sketch that kept some of the earlier ideas:

I loved it, my wife loved it. My friend Bele said he preferred the other one, but then admitted that he just likes a different type of cover. Just like with anything related to my own projects, I decided to go with my gut and worked on this last design. Here’s how it evolved:

And that’s the current state of the cover! The wide design below is what I sent to the printer. It includes the spine, the wings and such. It might still get tweaked (in fact this might not be the latest version of it) or texts changed, but this is the overall vibe of it.

Thank you for reading! And remember the Kickstarter is only for another few days!