Thursday 27 May 2010

Final Pieces



Hey all

After many long weeks and long hours the final pieces are finally in and submitted for marking. Click on the images below to see how they turned out.




Thanks for following and stay lucky :)

Leigh

Friday 21 May 2010

London below below below below

Still not happy with Neverwhere. What do you guys think? (click to enlarge)

Thursday 20 May 2010

So far so...


Click to Embiggen.

Outside/overlay covers:

Inner covers:
The Female Man awaits completion and I may redo Neverwhere and Earthsea in line with earlier ideas, and tweak Rama.
Opinions please...

Friday 14 May 2010

Another Neverwhere sketch



Just a sketch to test out the grid system. It seems to work pretty well. This image is a bit cluttered, but at least I spelt 'Medal' right this time.

ETA, colours were a bit too busy on the last one so I dialed them back and got them working together a bit better

Wednesday 12 May 2010

Grr!

The new cover to Frank Herbert's Dune (one of my preliminary choice ) does exactly what I set out to do with this project! Stop catching up with me, real world!
The whole thing is made up of stars, tessellated and used like halftone dotes, the title picked out in white stars, from Hodder Great Reads range

Pictures when I can find them. No wait here it is, image via Hodder books:



But at least this proves I was hitting it on the nail when I wrote the brief, all those weeks back.

Stay lucky, every one :)

Monday 10 May 2010

Sad News

Death of famed fantasy book cover artist and illustrator Frank Frazetta

Another visit to Waterstones.

In the space of a month a lot more colour and variety as been injected into the Sci-Fi shelves. I do wish I was a bit more ahead of the zeit-geist, not just in step with it.