Gilles Rainville illustration

With my recent surprise book cover contract from Prise de Parole , I decided to register myself with Illustration Quebec .  After a few months of very little activity on my profile, I thought, maybe I need more examples of cover art illustrations. So I decided to challenge myself.  I am going to take my artwork, imagine a storyline relating to the idea behind the artwork, and illustrate a book cover for it. I chose my most recent finished piece, Can I Have It? ,   to be the guinea pig for this "experiment". When I took a step back from this piece, it gave me the idea of a pre-teen novel centered around a brother and sister going on a magical yet perilous  adventure after discovering a small magical planet. I started with some messy gestural sketching to help me decide the layout of the book cover. With the rule of three I drew the rough sketch. Added a 2-point perspective guide to fix any perspective mistakes. For the next steps, I started with the foreground a...