This is a cover I did for NOW, an alt weekly in Toronto. They were featuring an author's festival that is going on in the city and wanted an image that would capture a variety of fiction genres (crime, war, foreign locales, etc.) The cover and sketches are below.
Cover
detail
Sketches. I started off with a man, but the hat was getting in the way and went with women's face instead, worked better with the hair, red lips, etc.