PaPa and Christian book cover process

Last week, I wrote about my new book PaPa and Christian’s Great Adventures: The Treasure Awaits! And I thought it would be interesting to show off the cover design process. After I had finished up most of the interior art, I talked with the author, Patrick Carberry, about the cover. He had a few ideas, including somehow incorporating this page from the interior:

I took his ideas and, combining them with a few of my own, worked up 4 rough cover designs.

Patrick really liked cover 4, using a variation of the interior art, but preferred the title treatment from cover 2. And so, here’s the final cover:

You can buy the book on Amazon at this link: