Just completed a new cover for BBC Audio books for the Agatha Christie series.
Now this cover - The Capture of Cerberus - had a few changes, below you can see the 3 stages. I thought it may be interesting to see them all. Firstly you have my original concept sent as a rough ( a highly polished rough mind you)....
Then the word came back that they did not want to be dog specific, so hence the next cover...with no dog...where I used parts of the story to begin to hint at the form of prison bars (the German gun, then the dog lead)....as a character was in a mental asylum (I know how that feels) :
The word came back that a gun was not required...... so had to remove that, and hence the final image which may be in your book stores and online shops sometime before Christmas:
Still like the original, still like the gun..... but 'changes' happen.
Anyway, just a quick congrats to all the graduating Illustrators at NUCA 2011, been a pleasure to see your work over the past couple of years and wishing you all the best in the future.
2 comments:
I wonder how a combination of the original and the final image would have looked? I do like the dogs, but also the gun barrels and faded figure on the right... perhaps less is more though. It usually is.
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