Shadow Beast (Thumbnail Ideas)

Another single cover for Phoenix Rise. This time we're keeping the girl in a purple coat but putting her up against a "shadow monster thing". This one seems fairly open so there is lots of possibilities, especially as I have no clue what the beastie is going to look like.

The girl is hiding behind something (a wall or some wreckage) concealing the gleam of a katana (or whatever) from giving her away to her quarry.


Underwater? Yeah, that's would be an interesting thing to try and paint.


We've done a beast of the land, one of the water and now one of the sky. And look! Its that macaw again, though jumbo size!

The ones below are pretty self explanatory. A harsh white background, as if the land is smothered in a bright light, to contrast and emphasise the black/shadow thing. If not a bright white than a bright colour, like a mist/fog, like these two examples ( Example 1 Example 2).