Cover for "Patient Zero"

This was the cover for Mel Trent's story, "Patient Zero."

Begun with a background gradient of yellow ochre to olive green, I added a cut and paste of a man from a public domain picture. I elongated him using "Edit -->Transform", then colored him with red and orange. Then the "smudge" tool.

Then I added some translucent red to the layer with the gradient.

This was done a week ago Monday ... I had no idea that the next day was going to bring crippling pain to my neck, shoulder, and arm.

Such is life.