Cover art progression for The Emperor's Omega

These are mostly screenshots I took of images the cover artist sent me because I was too lazy to actually download them. Hence some of the colors are weird because of my blue light filter, and the quality isn’t always great. My fault, not his!

This is the first trial image the artist sent me -- I hadn't given him character descriptions yet, oops, so Kenosi was not on target, although he got Suriya pretty well!
Back to the drawing board. He sent me a few options for poses and this is the one I picked.
Starting to fill in some of the details and the border.
Colors coming along! Nobody had legs at this point.
The final version before text was added. I'm thrilled with how it turned out. Hopefully I can convince him to draw horses for the next book (I hope he doesn't see this).
Preliminary typography. I thought the Rs and As looked too similar in thumbnail view so the designer tweaked the font some for the final cover.
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