AKKADIA: Along Temptation’s Edge
It’s the kind of layout you’re used to see among desperate PhotoShop users, but rendered with traditional media!
AKKADIA: Along Temptation’s Edge
It’s the kind of layout you’re used to see among desperate PhotoShop users, but rendered with traditional media!
Everything but the kitchen sink.
At least Wolfie is absent from this cover. And Wolfie’s glad of that, I bet!
Guess the celebrity rip-off!
Is the main couple (Paris Hilton and IDK) standing in the abyss? Are they giants?
If they are in the abyss, what are they standing on? It doesn’t look like a turtle. And why does it look like the ocean is one inch deep?
The ocean rose and flooded their golf course.
So it is Paris Hilton. Still, I can’t help feel it’s supposed to be someone else. So familiar… The left dude looks like he’s from some silly comedy tv show, or a badly drawn Joe Flanigan (John Sheppard from Stargate Atlantis). His date seems to be Gates McFadden in her younger days (dr Beverly Crusher from TNG), but again it doesn’t look exactly like her so I might be wrong. The girl with Boreanaz, I’m SURE I know her face from somewhere. I just don’t know who the blonde dude is. Maybe that’s the author?
BTW… Isn’t this an awfully well drawn cover for erotica? I thought those guys were systematically against spending money on covers? And other useless things like editors and proofreaders?
Is that David Boreanaz??? They all look familiar, I just can’t place them. Is it time to play ‘Name that Celebrity’?
Funny, the blurb mentions the center guy and the blonde, and only one other couple. Who’s the third couple, then? Photobombers?
This could’ve worked, as silly as it looks, if it wasn’t for the gaping hole in the lawn. And if the left couple wasn’t disembodied. And with a different set of fonts. The artist can sure paint well, but he’s lousy at picking the right fonts (that’s why you usually hire a different person for the job. Painting and design are completely different set of skills).
Yes – that is definitely Boreanaz. As for Paris Hilton; I can’t swear to that (I loathe the girl), but am basing that mostly on the nose.
Personally, I’m pretty sure that the other dude isn’t Joe Flanigan, but is actually Niall Matter (Zane Donovan on Eureka).
That is spot on his picture!
5 Awesome Points for you. Someone needs to tell Mister Donovan!
Yup, that’s probably the exact reference picture. 5 Points for john e…!
I have no desire to look up the actor name, but I’m pretty sure the blond guy played Green Arrow on Smallville. And I think the blond girl was the cheerleader on Heroes rather than Paris Hilton.
Yes, that’s exactly who she reminds me of! Thank you, it was bugging me to no end. As for the guy… it could be him, there are certainly enough shirtless pics of him to make a good reference. They both have a chin dimple.
Yeah, I think you’re right – the blond cheerleader girl in Heroes (Hayden Pattiniere I think her name is.) And I’m sure I’ve seen the redhead somewhere before too – but not with that hair. I think that’s been cut and pasted on her (or whatever you call the painterly equivalent.)
Pff, who wants to see a dragon? Stick it off to the side.
I’m willing to believe the Akkadian Empire had dragons, helicopters, and robots of doom, but there’s no way you’re going to convince me there were redheads wandering Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium BCE.
I don’t know about this…
It looks like a good painting at first glance, but there are subtle things not jiving with me. Blond Guy’s neckline for example, the helicopter also stands out.
It is just enough for me to think that they cut and pasted this together with stolen art (As John E… found) and then used a filter that made it look like they were a painter.
Still, heads and tails above many other cut and paste jobs!
do not capitalize john e. . .!!
Sorry jOHN e>>>! I’ll do better next time! š
Nah, no filter can make it look this good (god knows I’ve tried XD). You can usually tell there’s something artificial about it. I’ve googled the artist, and he’s certainly competent enough to draw this, even though he mostly does children books (the dragon and the robot are in his portfolio š I bet he had them lying around and just tossed them on the cover as a bonus!). The coloring style is the same, that shine on the skin that goes all the way to white is in almost every one of his drawings (not many artists use pure white like that). But, there’s no telling if he painted directly over the reference picture, I know lots of them do that to save time. That could explain how he captured the facial features perfectly. Doesn’t really matter in the end, it’s better to have a good drawing by “cheating” than a lousy one the “honest” way. People only see the end result, not how you got there, there are no bonus points for “honest” effort.
I never even thought of just tracing over something to paint it. I suppose it is a way you could do it to save time.
Even if the end result is nice, it still isn’t a good plan. Someone out there will know what you have traced and then your cred is ruined.