The Cull, Issue n.1 Variant Cover Illustration

Delighted to be one of the 8 variant cover illustrators for "The Cull", the new series written by Eisner Award Kelly Thompson with the stellar visual talent of Mattia De Iulis, published by Image Comics

Mattia is a young artist with extraordinary qualities and wanted me to launch his new project. Being a variant cover, I had the privilege to go for an absolutely wild take. It was great fun doing it.

As a side note: It's my first original cover illustration for the US market, now that I think about it.

The image itself is a pencil illustration coloured in digital.

This is the official cover as it appears on the actual volume.

This is the digital draft I started from.

And this is the pencil drawing I used as underpainting for the final piece.