Jam Session - BtWD music album art

We ran a successful Kickstarter in July 2022 for a music album based on the BtWD world, and every album needs a decent cover!

I had fun coming up with some potential instruments each of the seven kingdoms could enjoy, and arranging it all into a big group shot.

The final piece!

The most complete state of the rough concept, color-coded for clarity. At this point I was also testing the idea of lighting the piece like the group was gathered around a campfire.

The lettering pass.

Flat color stage. The characters were ultimately too close to each other for a campfire to make sense (and I wanted to keep them tightly grouped for the composition), so I solved this problem by using the firefly lanterns already established in-universe.