Prompted #04 Cover

Here's a new issue of Prompted, Reedsy's literary magazine. An anthology featuring winning works from the world’s most popular weekly short story contest.

For the cover: we based the illustration on one of the stories inside. In this case: 'Lost & Found' by Don Fazio. Essentially a sea rescue adventure, in which the camaraderie between the two main characters, Cappie (at sea) and Marge (at the lighthouse), turns out to be something more. The story has an adventure component alongside a proto-romance one that we liked a lot, and remains one of my favourite stories in this collection.

👆 Above — Rough colour sketches. One of the last changes was the direction of the rain, since the diagonal the drops were following created an additional axis that was distracting and complicating the image.

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