Bodysnatched Cover Process

r/l monroe's latest sexy short, Bodysnatched, is out! this one's a really funny halloween monster mash romp. You Will Love The Cryptlord. you can also get it as part of a 3 book $7 bundle for this weekend! meatheads and lucky little lunatics are also Very Very Good. great picks for a horny post-weenie weekend.

anyway it's process time!

THUMBNAILS

the prompt: "cover concept: the body of this stitched together monster girl, but with the titties and genital region cut out as missing jigsaw pieces. maybe some classic halloween monster hands (werewolf, dracula etc.) grabbing at her?"

so i just Didn't do the puzzle pieces or monster hands at first because i was worried it would end up too busy, and presented those b/w thumbs first with a cloth/tearing theme. this is because before starting i'd asked him if dolly was a patchwork doll or human skin type of frankenstein and i heard the complete opposite of what he told me (she is not a patchwork doll).

so i tried again, and wouldn't you know it, the initial concept as pitched was the best one. sometimes the client Is right.

THE SKETCH

you bet your ass i just googled "blank puzzle pieces" and put it over the drawing. what am i crazy

THE FINISHING PROCESS

between the sketch and the inks r/l suggested more hands be added to help convey the idea that the character is being passed around/modified by a bunch of different monsters, rather than just the one, which would've implied a central character relationship. i didn't even know about the cryptlord character, The Best Character, when i added the skeleton hand. i don't usually get to read these until the day before/day of release myself.

as for fonts, r/l monroe asked for my "goopiest goosebumps halloween ass fonts" which i did not have, but now i have Many.

anyway go read bodysnatched! it's only $3! or less if you get it in that bundle!

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what's that? what about last month's cover process?

so between Break & Enter being released a little late, october being an explodingly busy month, and the cover process itself being so completely straightforward one-and-done, it just didn't happen! but here, as an extra treat, you can see the alternate thumbnails for that one. that's honestly the only interesting thing i'd have to post about it. as you can see, there was very little difference between the thumbnail and the final cover!