The Legendary F-Rank Webnovel Cover 3

The last of the three book covers I've had to do. A slightly different scene from the previous two. Zero, the author of the novels, wanted to include an action scene of his character chasing a specific rabbit with red eyes and a red feather on his head.

This illustration was slightly more difficult to compose, and I'm still not completely comfortable with environment paintings so I thought about how I could execute this and make it look nice. Another issue was drawing the actual rabbit. I don't usually draw animals to begin with so this was a pretty big bubble burst, forcing me to step out of my comfort zone again.

I made a few thumbnails, looked at forest environments but I just couldn't find any images that caught my eye, so I took little bits and pieces from multiple, such as the tree shapes, the lighting, colors, etc. I tried a few different ways of shading the bunny, but it felt out of place. Then I went for harsher cell shading and less blending and I feel like this is the only outcome that suited the illustration.

The character has the harshest lights falling onto him so he stands out the most. The bottom of the illustration has the deepest shadows for the text placement, on the other hand. The little fog was added for ambience and to separate the background from the middle ground. The colors in this illustration seem more unified and the palette is less diverse in comparison to the second one.

To sum it up, the end result should lead your eyes from the character down the pathway to the bunny and the text, or back. The frame looks colorful on a small scale, but since the onl thing differing from the mid-tone olive hues is the character's skin and the bunny, you can still tell the center of the illustration without a hinch.

Reaching the end, cleaning up some little details in the illustration, the remaining job was to paste the typography again and shift its hues and tones to match the illustration. The name of the novel doesn't stand out too much from the background, but it's enough to be easily spotted within a second of looking at the illustration.