Final cover art vs. final printed cover: simplicity creates focus!
When showing the whole Gang in the same shot, you lose a lot of precious real estate for other aspects. Add a monster to the layout and it gets really busy!
Everything always goes back to Scooby & Shaggy in the end. This is why most of the Scooby covers I did for Capstone Publishing only had Scooby & Shaggy on them.
They had someone at Scholastic go into my layered file and take out Daphne, Velma and Fred. Then they enlarged and moved Shaggy & Scooby over. I wish they had asked me to fix this for them as Shaggy's sleeve is off! You can see the hard cut-off when he originally went off the side of the layout. They added his elbow too, but it looks okay. I never knew about the tweaks until I finally got my complimentary copies.
Overall, it looks better as a cover with just them, but I didn't know how big they were going to make the title or add the bottom flashlight icon. The bonus is that you can see more of my painted backgrounds (which took some time to match the show)! The glossy high-end paper they used darkened the final colors to give it the perfect creepy look!
Anyway, I thought I'd post the full original final art as it was. It still looks pretty cool! I added the Mystery Incorporated show logo to make it look like a poster.
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