This was the 3rd cover for the videos. I had a lot of fun with this one and was the second mummy Egyptian piece I had done to that point. Again, a lot of this was just made up. I did research some of the glyphs on the back of the wall and found reference for the top of the sarcophagus. The rest was just imagination. I remember that I was happy with the lighting in this image. The hand is mine. I just held my left hand in position and sketched it out.
This was the 2nd in the series of the video covers. I had a real difficult time with this one. It went through a couple of sketch phases. It really was made up totally. Not realistic in any sense of the word. Reference was real hard to find and when I made the blast chunks darker they just seemed odd. The only part I liked of this image was the blast coming out of the top of the volcano.
This is 1 of 4 covers I did for National Geographic Kids Videos back in 1996 or 1997 I think. I had to really search hard online to find these covers as they have updated the packaging since then. It looks like they only did 3 of the 4 videos. There was one for Tornadoes also. I will try to dig it up and find the art also. I remember making pretty good money on the series and thought that this would be the beginning of me breaking out in my freelance illustration career. More so it ended up probably being the beginning of the end oddly enough.
