This allows the ink and color work underneath those lines to be seen. I set the water overlay lines on a layer which has some transparency to it.
I wanted to take advantage of a blue/orange contrast and used a muted blue green that still played off of Em's muted red-orange dress.
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We have currently sold out of the Hardcover (though your local shops and online retailers may still have some in stock) and with plans to reprint, we thought we would offer a deluxe package as well that is full of stuff fans of the game asked for. The color choice for the water was directly related to the color of Em's dress. Mouse Guard RPG Boxed Set: At the NYCC we announced that there will be a Boxed Set of the Mouse Guard RPG to be out later this year. Having them on separate paper makes it easier for me when coloring to isolate and manipulate those lines. The lines shown here are pink only for illustrative purposes for the blog, they are black on the real overlay sheet.
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To get some transparency for the water's flow I inked water-ripple lines on an overlay sheet (using the lighbox so I could keep the lines in registration with the cover art). There wasn't much need to shade or render anything on this cover, so it looks a bit stark in comparison to some of the past covers. Using a lightbox to see my printout as a guide, I inked in the figure of Em and the flowers. I scanned the sketch, made some resizing adjustments and then printed it out in-scale with the final cover art dimensions. Em is holding a crow's feather, and (this isn't a spoiler) I don't explain why when it's shown in the funeral scene.Her kinship with birds gives Celanawe & Conrad the idea to send her off with a feather Once I had a floating Em sketched, I didn't need to do much more drawing since most of the work of this cover was going to be in the trick of getting transparent water on the submerged items & making the surrounding water interesting. I sketched a floating Em surrounded by flower pedals (based on a daisey native to Denmark.since Denmark was an influence on the creation of the isle of Ildur). The flowers from Padme's casket-sled translated directly to this cover and the scene in the book, they also gave the ever-important mouse-scale to the imagery. Em's more gentle nature needed something more calming, a sea/river burial. Celanawe, a weathered & grizzled mouse, recieved a funeral by fire. My two big visual cues came from various paintings (but mostly the one shown here) of Hamlet's Ophelia and Padme from Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. I showed a mouse funeral in Winter 1152, and for Black Axe, I wanted & needed to do something different with the ceremony. Excludes: Alaska/Hawaii, US Protectorates, APO/FPO, Africa, Oceania, South America, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Laos, Macau, Taiwan, Vietnam, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands (U.S.Em's death is explained and given meaning in issue 5, so I wanted the cover to feature her and show respect to the passing of the character.
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