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

London below below below below

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

So far so...

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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...

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

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 :)

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.

More Sketches

Based on the Obstruction: Use only circles, showing my two backup fantasy choices. Overprint on the Mort image produces a very thin blue edge on the scythe.

Books as objects

Reading essays by (among others) the beautiful and gorgeous maker of beautiful and gorgeous books, Audrey Niffenegger. I am a pulled back to thinking about books as objects. How they are physical portals between the private worlds of our own heads to the broader worlds of our total cultural experience. That, as artifacts, they should carry potency and be treated with respect. That those considerations should be bound up in their making, even by deliberate irreverent omission. But I'm back to the question of how to create those- do I use a board bound format. can it be done in paperback. I think those questions need to be answered by what can be printed in the time that I have- what is available to me. There is no point considering the physical object if I'm not going to produce a physical object.

Less disheartened

The thing is every idea has been done before. And if you find out that one of yours has already been done, then you can take that as a call to find something else or you can keep your old idea and be the one who takes it to the next level, or adds the next twist to it.

I was principally downed by the fact that a book design here http://www.abduzeedo.com/amazing-illustrations-micah-lidberg Under Firestorm (1/4 the way down) was exactly the same as an idea I'd been scribbling and toying with. And for Orion and Fallon, no less. Big name companies. But, you know, I got to my idea on my own and my idea was more about using the temporal aspect of opening the cover to reveal more of the story, not just to find an interesting (and extremely successful) way to covey texture an image.

Also: Electroluminescent covers. Beat that.

Disheartened

By the fact that every idea I have seems to have already been done.