Book Cover Illustration

Just a quick change of pace. I'll add more tee designs again soon. I just wanted to share this illustration I created for a book Cover that almost got published. Funny story behind this artwork. I was asked to come up with a new concept for a cover for a book we were doing at work that was fun an whimsical, something that would stop someone in a bookstore and make them want to pick up the book to read it. At least that's what the creative brief said. So I worked up a couple of comps, and since the book was about the health of our water, and frogs are like the proverbial canary in a coal mine for that, I settled on the image above. The publisher loved the image and it tested really well with all of their sales force, they were all set to publish, and at the last minute, their was a change. There's a story there too, but I'll tell you another time. Anyway, the cover got changed, and I didn't get my big break. Oh well, I still think it would of made a great cover.