making shapes

Lately I have been doing a lot of experimenting with with the way I make images.  I have been trying a method where I first paint a coloured shape or group of shapes and then use line to resolve the shapes into specific places or characters.  Sometimes I add a third stage where I wash over sections of the shape with additional colours.  All the additional colours show a little of the base colour behind them and I think this helps to unify them somewhat...

I used this technique on the cover of the forthcoming Bell X1 album, Chop Chop and also for several spreads in the Selfish Giant.