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Possible Cover for The Necklace

Started by flyingmice, January 03, 2015, 01:40:17 AM

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January 03, 2015, 01:40:17 AM Last Edit: January 03, 2015, 01:42:53 AM by flyingmice
I was attempting to show something about the game on the cover - The differences in technology, the fact that there is no horizon, the sense of both isolation and openness, the primacy of the river - all are important in the game.
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Simlasa

#1
January 03, 2015, 01:58:00 AM
I like the image and I get the tech disparity angle... but of your list that's the only one. At first glance I didn't take it as being a river... no impression of isolation or a lack of horizon. I took it to be spacefarers visiting some primitive world.

Soylent Green

#2
January 03, 2015, 03:07:14 AM
I think it works. I like it.
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tuypo1

#3
January 03, 2015, 04:42:52 AM
i really hope thats a rough draft because that ship really does not blend in with the rest of the image i would redraw the ship itself.
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JeremyR

#4
January 03, 2015, 05:37:01 AM
Quote from: tuypo1;807552i really hope thats a rough draft because that ship really does not blend in with the rest of the image i would redraw the ship itself.

Yeah. It looks like a cut and paste job from disparate sources. Like you found a picture of two people kayaking and pasted in the mountain from a different photo (you can see the jaggies) and then a relatively low res rendered hovercraft.

Understandly given the price of art if you keep it, but it would look a lot better if someone drew it all in a same, coherent style.

flyingmice

#5
January 03, 2015, 11:10:01 AM Last Edit: January 03, 2015, 11:22:11 AM by flyingmice
Thank you all for your comments!

Jeremy, what you took as jaggies is the effect of using a bristle brush at a much reduced size, going for brushy vegetation. It wasn't a bad paste job but a hack artist trying and failing. And the ship isn't rendered, it was just clumsily painted there.
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RunningLaser

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January 03, 2015, 11:37:26 AM Last Edit: January 03, 2015, 11:41:16 AM by RunningLaser
Clash- did you paint that by hand?

It's good:)

Simlasa

#7
January 03, 2015, 12:55:56 PM
What's the book about anyway? I'm guessing something like a ringworld, maybe?

flyingmice

#8
January 03, 2015, 02:48:36 PM
Quote from: RunningLaser;807605Clash- did you paint that by hand?

It's good:)

No, it's not, actually. Thanks, but I got the light on the ship all wrong. I still like the overall composition, but I have to work on it some more.

-clash
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flyingmice

#9
January 03, 2015, 02:59:38 PM
Quote from: Simlasa;807618What's the book about anyway? I'm guessing something like a ringworld, maybe?

Close! It's a gas torus around a neutron star, with a billion mile long artificial river twisting around inside of it. :D

-clahs
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flyingmice

#10
January 03, 2015, 04:52:14 PM Last Edit: January 03, 2015, 04:54:47 PM by flyingmice
OK - repainted the ship. Hope this is better!

-clash

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Rincewind1

#11
January 03, 2015, 04:55:34 PM
It is, though I'd suggest making the water slightly darker/more shaded as well.

The concept sounds pretty awesome.
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tuypo1

#12
January 04, 2015, 04:40:10 AM
still a tiny bit off but not as horrible as the original if you had not seen the original you probably would not notice the few problems with the new one so yeah that should work
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Soylent Green

#13
January 04, 2015, 05:05:12 AM
I actually prefer the original with the more subtle, watercolour style colouring of the craft rather than the sharp contours in the new version.

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Simlasa

#14
January 04, 2015, 06:18:43 AM
Quote from: Soylent Green;807735I actually prefer the original with the more subtle, watercolour style colouring of the craft rather than the sharp contours in the new version.
I was thinking the same... the first version looked less cartoony to me.
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