Monday, January 18, 2010

Book cover

Book cover illustration for "The Prince of neither here nor there" by Sean Cullen (Penguin). The brief called for the focus to be on the medallion so I played around with the lighting, such that the fairies are illuminated just enough to stand out against the dark background. I did this a while back but the book was only just published recently.


6 comments:

Andrew Tan said...

cool. i think ive seen this in the bookstores. why do the fairies look like teenagers? what kind of fairies are they?

Momo said...

This look great. I enjoy the details and the realism.

Unknown said...

drew: Really, where? I haven't got a copy yet. The fairies were described to me as modern day "dark faeries", with a bit of punk rock fashion sense. And yeah they're supposed to look youthful.

momo: Thanks! I had a comfortable timeframe to work within.

zeropointfive said...

Looks awesome man! I think you did a great job overall. It's also nice to see how your style is applied outside of the ad industry heh :D

Yea this cover looks familiar to me too...

Andrew Tan said...

yeah they do look like punk dark faeries.and i agree, its nice to see your style outside of advertising.

Don Low said...

Great job!!