What You Are In The Dark

Here it is - the variant cover for my graphic novel Von Herling, Vampire Hunter.  This cover will be used for the digital editions sold on DriveThru Comics and (eventually) Comixology.

I wanted something different for this cover.  The original black & white cover I did for the trade paperback (ISBN 9780989069618) was meant to evoke the feel of Universal Horror movies.  Here, I wanted to project the lurid Rococo color scheme of the Hammer Horror films.  When I painted in Von Herling with acrylic colors, they looked strange but I went ahead anyway as he would be against a black background.  In the end it works.  Why?  Anyone familiar with color theory will know that black and white are not truly colors - white is all colors and all light while black is the absences of all color and/or all light.  Here, the cool greens and the orange pops out against the blackness.

Ink & acrylic on 9x12 inch watercolor paper