Poster Art for Secrets

I have an upcoming book that I am self publishing. One of the parts of the package that I need to finish was the poster. I felt though the book is filled with some really great art that I wanted to make something new that spoke of the feel for the book.  So, working from the title of the book “The Secret Magics of Maine” I came up with a concept of a fairy that was slightly hiding keeping a secret.

poster art

This little guy was on the title page of the book. It was a little to cartoony for my desired look for the poster.

So the photo of mandi didn't come out that great but I know this was the general pose that I wanted and a good deal of the art was going to come from imagination.

After I took the photos I worked up a sketch for the poster.

Because I didn't know the size for the final poster and other collateral, I expanded the art and hid the fairy in leaves to give me the maxium usage of formats.

Rough painting it is all coming together. It still is bit bare but now it is time to develope details that will push the painting into completion.

Refinements to the face and added jewles and other details wraps up the painting.

Click Here to see the final poster with all of the copy.