Salvage Hounds Volume 02 Cover Inks + Story Tease

Hey, everyone, I’m hard at work on finishing up Salvage Hounds Volume 02. Top of that list is working on the cover, and I figured I’d take a break to post a preview in the form of the inks. And hey, why not add a little tease about the story while I’m at it?

For the cover to Salvage Hounds Volume 02, I wanted to go for a more traditional illustration look. To achieve that, I started with the inking style from the interior of the book, but spent a bit more time on details, textures, and blacks, but left plenty of room for paint.

The crew of the Mutt have seen better days. Down on their luck, they’re not just scrounging for fuel and parts but their very existence out among the boomtown stations orbiting Jupiter’s moons. Sure, they’re used to scratching by on whatever they can salvage, but when war escalates between the corporations vying for control of the frontier, their prospects go from bad to non-existent.

But Captain Olivia Singh has certainly had it worse. She fled the Earth Sphere for this life, never looked back, never talked about the dark deeds that made her run. Even so, she always knew her past was going to catch up to her orbit someday, and with it, a terrible reckoning…

She just never expected it to come bearing an uneasy truce instead, and a gift—a job she so desperately needs, but at what cost?

-Salvage Hounds Volume 02, coming soon

I’ve added these inks to the Pen and Ink Gallery here on the site. Stay tuned for an announcement on when the book will be releasing!

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