Season of Predators by faroutsider
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This is the cover I designed for the novel "Season of Predators" (see Gorrel and Too much like Earth). I'll post the other images I did for the book over the next few days.
Set up and rendered in Vue 11.5 Infinite, characters modified from models obtained at DAZ3D and Renderosity using Poser 2012 Pro, Vue and ZBrsuh, and lettering done in Photoshop CS6.
Craig
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Comments (12)
lisalisette
You taged it as violance.. but I can not find any violance in this image.. I think you are to cautious (or how you spell that word) :) Great work !!
auntietk
Nicely done! This has that "alien" feeling, which is what they were going for, as I recall from what you've said before. Good stuff!
grafikeer
Very nicely done Craig...congrats on the book illustration work!
Leije
Excellent works on this cover !
pchef
beautiful cover with great depth
Black-Carrie
Great work! But I can´t see any violence too.
faroutsider
OK, I'll remove the violence tag, but if i'm busted by the R'osity cops, could I ask my friends to please bail me out...?
starfire777
Fantastic!!!
barryjeffer
Very cool layout, great work on this amazing scene.
Savage_dragon
Coolness, Craig! ")
GrandmaT
Excellent work!
anahata.c
I recall that, when this was posted, that I thought your hue alone conveyed the sense of danger and lurking predation---you use a deep almost underwater blue-green, with a touch of gray, which implies a world sunken in sinister shadow. It's a cloistered hue, and intimates that at least part of this novel takes place in regions invaded and dangerous. In the American Midwest, we get these hues before thunderstorms and tornadoes, and you feel you're walking through a sinister, futuristic world. The big creature on the bottom looks like he's crafted out of old weathered metal, and he certainly tells us that some of these characters are not 'delicate' types---and he's probably not a standup comic. Though---and I'm serious about this---there's something fun about him, like he could be part comic-relief, if there were comic relief in the novel. He at least looks like you had fun creating him. (In the "Pastoral Symphony" by Beethoven, if you're not familiar, Beethoven created a "storm" movement which has all kinds of orchestral fireworks and explosions; but when you've studied Beethoven, you can't help but feel he had a blast---no pun intended---writing it. This creature, even if he is a bad guy, looks like you had a lot of fun creating him. Like you were smiling as you put him together, with all those bumps and the 3 eyes or beacons, etc. And the human-like hands, with nails that would do well on Dracula, etc. I love the details you gave him.) Then a station and ship (is that Gorrel steering that ship?), submerged in the haze of this landscape, with two jaundiced light-beams or contrails to emphasize the jaundiced feel of the whole scene. It sure sets the scene for the novel. It feels dank and menacing, and you want, upon entering the novel, to find safe haven right away. More fine and thoughtful work from you, Craig. It's amazing how many things you do as an artist, while stlll being a scientist, editor, etc. I"m forgetting to fav, btw, because I'm wound up in the imagery; but I'll fav it all, because of your time, effort, feel, milieu, etc. These take a ton more work than a photograph, which is one of the reasons I've done photos of late rather than drawings or paintings. And you always do the work with great care, finesse, and ultimately beauty.