Story Covers
As I am illustration two stories from the Necronomicon, I decided that it would be a good idea to create title pages for each one.
The idea for the cover vignettes came from the vignette I created earlier in my development - I felt that the feedback for it was so positive that dismissing it completely would be a bad decision, however it wasn't appropriate for an in-story illustration as it was not appropriate for any of the scenes. It was then that I had to create a vignette for the Cats of Ulthar. I did experiment a little with colour on the Night Gaunts vignette however felt the original blue was a better representation of the night sky. I struggle a little more to find the right colour for CoU, looking at presenting the cat as royalty and using royal colours - gold was an option but the collar was gold so it would not stand out enough. Red was also an option, but I felt a royal purple brought out the gold much more. The beetles in the background were a response to the smoke in the background of the NG vignette, so I replicated the layout of the smoke with the beetles moving in the opposite direction as the cat was facing.
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