Day 30 (I think) Roughs for covers(ZF and CC)

So thought I had the scanner at work uh, working. . .but apparently I now can't get the contrast to work correctly. As such I'll try to rescan these at a later date.  I'm putting up now, so people really new to the process can see how I approach design from abstracts (which didn't scan at all -was using 4h & 6h lead so no surprise) to thumbs to roughs.  You may see some arrows and such by the notes.  It's how I mark what the intended flow is for the readers eye.  Certain shapes and shape combinations tend to draw a viewers eyes in specific ways across the page. But more on that later.  Here we go.

Here you can see I want the Mikey character (the velicoraptor with a shotgun) leaping into the fray.  I dunno, just seems bad @$$ to me, and that 7 year old view of what's cool and not applies to this kinda comic. . . the upper right corner is where I had the basic blocks out of the form and movement. From there I went to really quick thumbs.

Here's the quick sketch of Mikey. Still playing around with the arrangement of his body, and you can see I'm trying to form a rough idea of where the rest of the focal points, in this case a horde of infected zinos may be placed.

and here you can see I'm trying to work through how I want to place the horde of zombies that will make up a large swoop of the cover.  By setting up a wall of zinos I'm also creating a block that will have the readers eyes hopefully follow the arrow, and therefore see the title.

It's all about the sneaky.

Hope that helps.  I'm still at work and honestly pretty tired so I may come back and edit this a bit more coheriently later.  If you have any questions or comments, please leave the in the (not suprisingly) comments section.  I'll answer all questions as soon as I can. Oh, and sorry about all the typos. Tired.