A piece for the Alien art Hive. Made working in the CMYK colour layers to imitate late seventies book covers. I didnøt really get what I wanted, but I guess it is OK. Hope you enjoy... And yes, I know that the skull scene is not, "to be or not to be," but Yorik and his lips.
Made with Krita
You may not have gotten exactly what you wanted but you got a thing which is better than no thing and in fact is a pretty cool looking thing :)
Does have that oldschool scifi novel look about it XD
I think I maybe made it too complicated. Back then it was airbrush and b/w photo collage mixed together. The cumbersome process using a light table made it necessary to keep it simple. Computers have sometimes too many options and layers. But thanks all the same.
Brilliant all the way around ... I wish I could write a whole play around this that referenced Shakespeare because this is SO good...
I am sure you can write that play :)
Sci fi book covers from the 70's have literally some of the best art I have ever seen, I actually wished I had kept a lot of my old book covers and framed them :P This is very cool!
I agree @juliakponsford and I think @katharsisdrill this is pretty darn good. I recall going through all the old sci-fi fantasy books as a kid when our family did the Sunday 'going to the local used book' day. That smell and the creaky floors and all the amazing artwork on all the old books, ah, such a sense memory.
Nostalgia!
Whenever I am in England I buy a handful of old Michael Moorcock or other writers and half of it is to own the actual book with the actual frontpage (the other half is to add some easy reading of course).
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I can imagine that on one of the old SF books I used to read. As people go to ebooks with cover art die out? Can't do so much on a Kindle screen.
The large LP cover died with the LP... and then the LP was resurected :) But I think that the cover will still be there somehow - just like digital music releases still have art work.