Repulsive Graphics [CFCU]

23🔸EC entry #1 + I still hate horror covers

(In Myst's voice) "It's like a cruel joke."

Whoops! I accidentally quoted my main character from my totally new fantasy novel, "The Death of a Dream". Not suspiciously selling out at all....

Anyways! I've been getting peer pressured by you people (you know who you are!) into joining actual contests. So I decided to join EarnestyGraphics' contest.

The first prompt for the contest, with my shitty luck, was horror. Of course it was. But mama didn't raise no b*tch, so I tackled it head on... In the day time... With lots of sunlight. I have a love hate relationship with the genre. On one hand, I get super creative and make some neat stuff. On the other, I'm a wuss.

The Prompt:
- an infection/disease of some sort kinda like chicken pox
-a demented looking kid
-full creative freedom with the font, tag, title

--Challenge Accepted!--

Design Process: 3 hours
The only things I needed for this cover were a kid, some meat, and a frog. Yes, a frog... Don't judge me.

First step in any tutorial of mine is the base picture. So I grabbed this kid off Pexels. He's a little too sweet and cute for what I'm about to do to his face. So I used the liquify tool and made him frown. Then I took my paintbrush and just painted one eye white.

Next, I painted some color on him. Much as I love B/W on horror covers, a pop of color against the darkness is much better.