{"id":10811,"date":"2026-05-13T13:46:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/cover-art-sneak-peek\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:46:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:46:41","slug":"cover-art-sneak-peek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/cover-art-sneak-peek\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Art: Sneak Peek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Who remembers my Wuxia Warrior <\/a><\/strong>commissions? The TLDR:<\/strong> I transform you into a legendary Kung Fu (Wuxia<\/em>) Hero done in my newest, most luxuriant illustration style. People Love ’em.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m delighted to say that I’ve been invited to apply that style of illustration to a new comic-book cover! I’l be contributing a special variant cover to issue #2 of Sifu Kurtis Fujita’s Shadow Ghost.<\/strong><\/em> It’s the Kung Fu Comic by a Kung Fu Master. I got to go a bit off model with this character and lean into my Wuxia<\/em> sensibilities. All to help build out the Shadow Ghost universe with this Alt-Design. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a lot of deep lore behind this cover m, Kurtis and I will go into detail about that a little later on. But to better appreciate the work put into this art, here\u2019s what you should do… Click Over<\/a> to the pre-launch page for the Shadow Ghost Kickstarter,  hit that “notify me on launch”<\/em><\/strong> then email the word \u201cSketchbook\u201d<\/strong>to info@theshadowghost.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kurtis will then reply by sending you a copy of the Shadow Ghost Digital Sketchbook<\/em>! It’s filled with behind-the-scenes development material, early character designs, and raw creator process pulled from the series. It will come in handy when we break down the details & symbolism behind the character design and my resins for going off model 😎<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who remembers my Wuxia Warrior commissions? The TLDR: I transform you into a legendary Kung Fu (Wuxia) Hero done in my newest, most luxuriant illustration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,7,531],"tags":[23,103,19,67,245,233,25,72,14,190,134,191,166,235,532],"class_list":["post-10811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-comics","category-cover-art","tag-art","tag-character-design","tag-comic-books","tag-comics","tag-cover-art","tag-crowdfunding","tag-digital-art","tag-fan-art","tag-illustration-2","tag-kickstarter","tag-kung-fu","tag-kungfu","tag-process","tag-wuxia","tag-wuxiawarriors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_7684-1.jpg?fit=1500%2C1500&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3egHU-2On","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8775,"url":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/the-comics-fu-show-returns-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":10811,"position":0},"title":"The Comics Fu Show returns!!!","author":"PLUGO","date":"October 13, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"After a brief mid-season break, THE COMICS FU SHOW comes back strong with two back-to-back episodes! 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