via Bookshelves of Doom, gorgeous cover art by Jason Chan — BoD theorized that with art this gorgeous, this author is likely to begin garnering the fans her writing deserves…and she’s right – I’d buy this, likely for the art alone.
I found this post particularly heartening in a very selfish way. Illustrating book covers is pretty high up on my list of What I Really Want To Do, but lately, I have been seeing the trends go more and more in this direction:
A lot of photos, mostly cropped human bodies. A lot of girls with historically inaccurate ‘period’ clothing. Some of them are even very appropriate and nicely done…but I have ALWAYS loved illustrated work on book covers…especially if the story is set in a time or place that photography wasn’t really an option (a Victorian boarding school, for example) , a photo cover seems somehow wrong to me…but even for contemporary story lines, nine times out of ten I would rather see an illustration than a photo.
So, it does my heart good to see such a beautiful piece of cover art getting some decent recognition (and honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if the reason for the prevalence of photos for covers was due to some of the truly sub-par illustration that was out there as well…maybe this cover will remind the publishing world that an illustrated cover CAN be done well?)
That cover looks a lot like your art. I think thats why you like it.
Or…my art looks similar because I like it, if you know what I’m saying. I do like this style, and in my own work tend to try to mold it in a direction I like. So, this has similarity to the stuff I do (only, you know, way better) because it is the direction I have been pushing my work. In other words, I don’t like this because it resembles my own work (only way better)…I like this, and SO my own work resembles IT. I think. Or something.
No. What I said was right.