First IRIS cover page, in black and white (well...except for the font, that is.)

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I've been working on this on and off for many weeks now and I originally planned on doing a full colour cover, but this turned out okay enough to submit (for now) and I wanted to show the original pencil work on Iris. It's been a real pain of picture -- this is file version #9 -- it and its predecessors all have dozens of layers, many of which are layers of trial-and-error stuff that I'm not sure how to finish but don't really want to discard yet.

Anyway, a colour cover may be coming later.....a lot later.

Edit:
I softened the hands so that they wouldn't look so manly.
I also practically redid the katana blade -- added more curve (too straight before) and did the dragon reflection properly so that the dragon's eye lines up with Iris' (which is the effect I originally intended -- Iris' eye should not have shown through the blade as it was.)

synopsis (for those who don't already know):
Because of the fallen White Dragon's eye transplanted into her left socket, Iris has an enhanced killer instinct, making her the top assassin in the dark, future world run by gangsters. But when her master and employer becomes fearful of her growing powers, he orders the extraction of the eye and her death. The operation fails. The eye is only partially removed when the separation of eye and owner triggers a bezerker rage that renders everyone around her dead. She awakens, with eye intact, surrounded by the carnage, with amnesia. Thus begins her journey to rediscover the truth, while the dragon's persona and hers slowly merges into one again.