MIRIAM IN SIBERIA | VOL.2 LP COVER

Cover illustration for the forthcoming LP "Vol.2" by Miriam in Siberia.

VISION TWO | OTOMO SHONEN - EARLY WORKS BY KATSUHIRO OTOMO

Here is the second cover I saw in my dream.

It is a collection of Otomo's early works.

Mostly black and white stuff.

The book was thick and covered in dark gray canvas.

One copy had that paper thing (obi) the japanese books usually have, but I can't remember perfectly.

Last thing: the covers are exactly the way I dreamed 'em. Far from me to think these are actually good covers. They are the faithful reproduction of the books I saw in my dream.

Hope you'll like it, anyway.

Don't forget to click the image to see it full size.

VISION ONE | OTOMO / ANATOMY

I dreamt about Mr. Katsuhiro Otomo.

In the dream I was not self confident enough to speak to him so I only stared at Otomo from a distance while he was talking with his collaborators in the main hall of a old fashioned roman hotel.

During the meeting he was shuffling his new books on the table.

I could clearly see two books.

Here is the first one.

It was a book about Otomo's anatomy archetypes research made for Akira.

It is called OTOMO / ANATOMY.

Sorry for the cheap compositing, it's only a quickie, but I think it gets to the point.

Here is an in between.

Starting the second one now.

BATMAN | FINAL

Here it is: no more trash glowy moths and a more gentle and selective color correction.

Drawing at night can bring you to brutal color corrections :)

BATMAN MOCKUP

Click on the images to see 'em properly.

Finally had some time to finish.

It was a 12 hours thing, digital draft to coloured flat version.

Not very sure about some details. The glow on the moths is maybe too cheesy.

Maybe I will crank the brightness up a bit more. I love the fact you have to struggle to see Batman in the dark, but maybe I can just let him be a little more visible.

Tomorrow, maybe, I will post a more definitive version.

For sure I can do be faster AND better.

Anyway the Superamici logo on true a Batman cover should be there by default.

Batman is the best superhero to draw, no doubt.

Cover illustration for "Il Manga", Tunué.

The illustration itself.


The line artwork.



Here are 2 initial sketches I made before heading to the final composition.


And here is the final thing with all of the text in place.

SOLOMON KANE + SINISTER BARRIER BOOKCOVERS

Here are 2 book covers I did for Coniglio Editore.
One is for Solomon Kane, a novel by Conan the barbarian's author, the other is for Sinister Barrier, a classic scifi weird story.
Never did a cover for a book.
So I started with two :)

Both covers were done in the same VERY quick technique (2hours each).
It's basically a quick draft photoshop sketch, layered with true paint spatters, and then rendered with a quick, standard photoshop white brush.

The original files are very big, while the final output will be rather small so I didn't care to hide all the photoshop artifacts as they will blend during the downscaling process generating interesting subpixel details.

Below the covers and the process!

Here is Solomon Kane:




And Sinister Barrier:





And the process:

Quick sketch:


Watercolour Spatter:


Rendering details:

SPRAWL | MECHANIC PHUNK, Take 2

Another take for SPRAWL'S Mechanic Phunk!

SPRAWL | Mechanic Phunk

Cover illustration for "Mechanic Phunk" by SPRAWL, published by solar one music.

SD001 | PLISSKEN

Cover illustration for "Plissken", a LORY D remix EP for John Carpenter's "Escape from New York" OST.
Yes: I actually wrote John Carpenter's name on a record label (and Alan Howarth's too)
I can die in peace now.
Published thanks to my friend Radro at Subdance.

And here's the promotional sticker design.

BLUE ISSUE 194 | Cover illustration

Blue 194, out now. Ask your newsagent.
This is my humble contribute to a forbidden sacred magazine.
I wanted to catch that exotic super futuristic flavour of those early super pricy '90's newtype japanese magazines.
Hope you'll like it.

***UPDATE***
Here's my copy!