It was a short turn around and a small space to work but I'm happy with what I managed to get done! Below are a couple of my initial rough sketches that I started with focusing on the author, Karl Marlantes himself and 1 other that focused on his novel as a piece of army equipment.



They decided to go with the second idea although I did like the concept of the bullets turning into novel pages myself ;)

Hey there Alexander. I absolutely love your illustrators here. I hope you don't mind, but we posted them at the official Matterhorn Facebook page. We'd love for you to come by and check it out. www.facebook.com/matterhornbook
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