Last year, I had the pleasure again to design a book for George. I know, i know this post should have been last year but I was just too busy.

Anyway, I wanted to share some pieces of how I made George’s imagination into an illustration.

I don’t talk a lot nor write. Hope you enjoy this and gives you inspiration.

First, George wrote to me

I wanted a muscular woman in an armour breastplate reaching for a sword that seemed to glow as if backlit and hover above a round stone column. The woman was to have long red hair and she would be kneeling with one arm extended toward the sword…she would be kneeling on one leg with the other leg stretched out behind her…she would be wearing a long white skirt that would be split to reveal a muscular thigh and armoured boots…the background of this picture was to have been an old and somewhat run down ruin of a stone abbey with broken windows through which the starry night sky could be seen…this is the concept for the cover I would like if possible...

I began my research and first thing that came to my mind is find photos of Red Sonja… and woman with red hair.

Again, I didn’t draw these. These are my inspirations I got off the internet. DeviantArt and google. If you happen to be the illustrator of one of the photos here, I would gladly add your name for credits. Please e-mail me anytime.

After too much hot red hair Sonja’s, I began with my red hair warrior. OK, I confess, more research. Since I haven’t been doing sketches, I have to look for quick tutorials.

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