Cover art, and how it happens...

[desperance]

M'good-friend-'n'-colleague moshui (whom you should all friend, and read, and so forth) posts a link to where his cover artist Robert Hunt has blogged the step-by-step process of how he made the image. As Daniel says, artists are bonkers. But wonderful.

Comments

[coppervale.livejournal.com]

Whattaya mean, bonkers?

Actually, we're all...

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I have no defense. Carry on.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Hee. Do you ever make models, that you then draw? Have you ever...? Or is this a particular Robert thing? (I was intrigued: that whole notion of doing one thing in order to do something else, it doesn't really happen in writing, except in so far as some people will write a synopsis and then write a book from that, but I don't...)

[samarcand.livejournal.com]

There's a comic book artist called Alex Ross who is renowned for taking photos of people in home-made costumes and then drawing the picture from that. He is an excellent artist (you may have noticed the picture of The Flash on my wall in the living room - that's by Ross)but his actual comic book work suffers from looking too stiff and as if it's been taken from a posed photo.

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

Mind you, all artists don't sculpt models of their cover subjects before picking up pencils and brushes. It's a minority method. But a spectacular one, I'll grant you that.