....and which genre? I have recently discovered and fallen in love with Slava Fokk's work, especially his Sensuality and Black Queens collections. I first came across his work on a book cover, actually Spoiler: Book cover art I was so mesmerized by the cover that I didn't pay attention to the book title or author . I'll find it eventually, I guess lol His work is surreal, so I think it would be perfect for my Literary SF WIP.
I’ve chosen Edmund Emshwiller for my raypunk pulp novel — if I ever write it. He passed away in 1990, but I won’t let a minor detail like that stand in the way of my dream. Spoiler
J.M.W. Turner? His ass died in 1851 but, you know, resurrection technology is right around the corner!
wow! you can buy an editorial license to one of his paintings for only $384.81 to be printed on 25k book copies. Idk why I was expecting more. for 1 Slava Fokk print, its like $500! I wonder if its because Turner is dead but then other dead painters' works are super expensive, too.... I dont know how book covers and licensing works
1851 is super dead. I mean, I realize life/death is a binary condition, but that's special dead. Turner is awesome btw. I've seen some of his works in the British Muesum. The canvases are like the size of my dining room walls.
Wow, Fokk and Emschwiller seem meant for classic covers. Unfortunately none of the artists I like (Rene Margritte, Fransisco Goya, Dragan Bibin) would make a fitting book cover illustration for my projects. It's going to be some dude/gal on fiverr that I throw $600 at. Technically they're artists too! Just not famous.
"I mean, I realize life/death is a binary condition" - laugh-out-loud moment of the day... Turner is the dogs; I grew up to seeing the fighting temeraire every day (a print, not the real one, obviously, although somebody had put fake brushstrokes in with varnish so it looked pretty good) [back on point/] I would probably go for another dead one with Maurits Escher. Apart from the fact that trying to unravel one of his woodcuts or litho-prints is very like tying together the plot of a novel, if you didn't fancy reading the words, you could just watch the cover...
Don't know if you're serious or joking here, Xoic. There are some excellent illustrations done by AI artists that take fantasy to a whole new level. Example from youtube: If Rome never fell, link: But one must be careful, there is a lot of opposition to AI art. I will personally be using human artists as long as possible. But to all the people talking about dead artists in this thread, soon maybe AI artists can mimic them, giving you your wish.
I don't know either. I guess it was half-and-half. I've seen some pretty impressive AI art, but I haven't really looked into it. Lol, you'd think, with some of the things I said about AI writing... But honestly I've been more impressed with some of the visual art I've seen from them.
Sorry, yes, it is good. It should really have an apostrophe --The dog's-- and refers to parts of a dog's anatomy of which he is particularly fond.
That would be bollocks, yes. I didn't want to sully @J.T. Woody's nice thread about artists with vulgarities, but but now the ball is out of the bag... I mean the cat is out of the bag!
I can say it, because to Americans it isn't a dirty word at all, more of a funny one. Like saying "Kiss my buttocks!"
Why do you have to buy a license to use a reproduction of a public-domain work as a book cover? Is this a peculiarity of British law? I wouldn't pay to use it here in the U.S.
No idea. I looked up where to buy his prints and this one classical painters site gave that estimate -shrugs- Which is why i was surprised
I can see paying for physical prints. Or even to get a high-quality image reproduction, if that's the only way you can get it. But in the case of the latter I guess I'd look around the internet for images first
Banksy. I'd print one copy of the book and sell it for far more money than I could have made otherwise.
Terence Cuneo. We had quite a few bits of his work in the mess back in the day. I had always rather hoped to pull off something daring enough to end up in one of his paintings, but it turned out the chap had gone and died while I was still in secondary school, which made that rather unlikely. My own spectacular lack of martial prowess didn't help, of course. I wonder if the climax of what I'm working on just now might look good in his style.
I recently rediscovered the art of Leo and Diane Dillon when a book with one of their illustrations came across my desk and it looked so familiar. Their artwork has been everywhere! From Isaac Asimov books, Madeline L'Engle, Garth Nix.... to children's picture books. I just never paid attention to cover illustration back then to realize it was all the same person (duo). Their work is so nostalgic to me... looking through their gallery just makes me warm and happy and brings me back to elementary school where I first read A Wrinkle in Time.
