Twice Upon A Marigold

As I was doing Once Upon A Marigold

I was also designing and cutting the other two.

Twice Upon A Marigold is just as fun as

the first with a lot charm and great detail.

The first sketch I had doesn't work for obvious reasons.

But I went back and made the title more prominent.

 It was getting closer. 

I just needed to switch some elements around

We were happy with this sketch so I started to cut it.

I always tweak little things here and there

while i'm cutting so I can get the composition I want.

I like it but some of the colors needed to be changed

and a few letters were hard to read.

So I fixed those. Here a few details:

I like how the water looks going to the back of the book.

It's a nice little touch that I wanted on all three covers. 

I really like how the colors on this one turned out

and I think it goes really well with the first book as well.

The book is available here and at your local bookseller.

You can glimpse an image of the third Marigold

cover on the back of Twice. That book comes April 16th.

I'll tell you about it then. Thanks again to 

Elizabeth Tardiff for the amazing art direction!

Once Upon A Marigold

Last year I got to work on the covers for

reissues of the Marigold series by Jean Ferris.

They are wonderful fairy tale/ fantasy books for

pre-teens with lots of great characters and details.

For the cover, they wanted those details to
interact with the title of the book. I drew elements as

I read the book. Here was the sketch I  

came up with as I read the book.

They liked the dogs but wanted me to show more castle. 

I went back to the drawing board and refined it.

I tightened up a few elements and went to finish.

Here are a few details: 

 

And here it is in book form. I love it!

The book is available here and at you local book seller. 

I'm really happy with how it came out. 

Especially with how it works alongside

the other two. But i'll show you those later.

Thanks to Elizabeth Tardiff for the absolutely 

wonderful art direction!