For this project, I was given the fake book title “Shooting Match” with the subject being the marriage of Annie Oakley and Frank Butler. From there I thought about different ways of combining the concepts of marriage and western gunplay. I eventually landed on the idea of a wedding cake being a target as viewed from the top. After exploring this idea, I decided to turn this quick project into a short series of fake books. Thus came “Buffalo Express” and “Cross-Examination.” I tried to stay in keeping with the wild west theme for the subjects, and I kept my color scheme, stark lighting, and simple illustrations to keep the three covers feeling like a part of a system.