Unpolished illustration. A few minor details missing but I quite liked the mood of the character. Meursault himself is unfeeling, uncaring and rather likens himself to that of the universe. That it simply doesn't care about humanity and we're only here for the ride. What annoys Meursault in the end is that people are so angry at him and his lack of empathy when it fact the universe has been doing that to them for century's.
A bit more detail here. I think I'm going to re draw his clothing entire because at the moment he doesn't scream the 1940's at me. But this is a minor thing that I can re adjust today.
Took just the image of the head to see what I could do it and rather liked the idea of smoke forming a question mark around Meursault. This idea that as a stranger/outsider he is questioned by society itself. In turn, Meursault questions them in a brilliant fit of rage at the end of the novel.
Playing around with the book cover design. Completely influenced my DMZ and general Brian Wood at the moment.
With the first unpolished illustration.
Trying to play around with inverted colours. Not quite sure if this effective of not. I think it now looks to much like a photograph and not an illustration.
Working with textures over the illustration and the start of figuring out the layout for the blurb. The idea being that I would have a smaller illustration of Meursault at the bottom.
And with the head shot and smoke. I quite like this one. 
With Meursault on the back cover in more traditional 1940's era clothing (which was influenced by the gangster culture at the time.)
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