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Cover art! The Forge of Darkness

#41 HiddenOne

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Posted 26 May 2012 - 02:26 PM

amphibian, on 25 May 2012 - 11:06 PM, said:

HiddenOne, on 25 May 2012 - 09:04 PM, said:

perhaps my kid will make me a crayon drawing to use as a dust cover, she likes dinosaurs

Do you think she can do something like a jhorligg or another Kurald Galain type monster?

I think Erikson would be tickled pink to see that cover image.

afraid not, she's 3, my sarcasm font must be broken - her gifts do not lie in the area of visual art so far, but she really does like dinosaurs. However, I'm sure her drawing skills will develop before the end of the Epic Series of Doom, so I won't give up hope (and neither should you) of a fancy custom cover perhaps signed by the artist

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#42 BlackMoranthofDoom

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Posted 26 May 2012 - 03:43 PM

It's allright, but I still think the one with the sword is better.

#43 Defiance

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Posted 28 May 2012 - 01:44 AM

Don't tell me the US and the UK are getting mediocre covers! How am I going to get good looking cover art now?

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Posted 28 May 2012 - 03:05 AM

HiddenOne, on 26 May 2012 - 02:26 PM, said:

The very fact that she is three and willing to draw cool monsters (much like I did at the same age) is awesome. Maybe you can guide her to a jhorligg some ways down the line.

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#45 Illuyankas

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Posted 28 May 2012 - 04:05 AM

I just want to see what she can do after being told 'draw a dinosaur with swords for hands'. Especially if it's a stegosaurus or something.

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#46 HiddenOne

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Posted 28 May 2012 - 02:14 PM

Illuyankas, on 28 May 2012 - 04:05 AM, said:

I just want to see what she can do after being told 'draw a dinosaur with swords for hands'. Especially if it's a stegosaurus or something.

she is well versed in the ways of the dino and knows the stego is a 4 leg walker and so would protest - her top choice of dinos is now the T. Rex (obvious reasons) which would work best conceptually imo.

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Posted 28 May 2012 - 03:13 PM

Oh god yes, a huge hulking carnivore with two little daggers waving uselessly in front of it, YOU HAVE TO DO THIS

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Posted 28 May 2012 - 03:27 PM

Illuyankas, on 28 May 2012 - 03:13 PM, said:

Oh god yes, a huge hulking carnivore with two little daggers waving uselessly in front of it, YOU HAVE TO DO THIS

Seconded. extra karma if it's pink.

The new cover looks weirdly Celtic.

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#49 tiam

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Posted 28 May 2012 - 06:23 PM

Indeed it does.

Any news on when a prologue might appear? For this or B and B?

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Posted 30 May 2012 - 10:33 PM

Jean-Claude Van tiam, on 28 May 2012 - 06:23 PM, said:

Indeed it does.

Any news on when a prologue might appear? For this or B and B?

Still nothing - both Pat (Pats Blogg) and kfc (Neth space) have asked but got no reply back on early copies or excerpts

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 02:23 PM

Defiance, on 28 May 2012 - 01:44 AM, said:

Don't tell me the US and the UK are getting mediocre covers! How am I going to get good looking cover art now?

Make the cover art yourself...problem solved!

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#52 Khellendros

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 10:06 PM

That new cover is the very definition of 'meh blandness'. It's trying to be so hard to be uncontroversial that it's just devoid of any sort of connection with the material within, just a symbolic nod to the old MBotF helmet banners.

It's clearly intended to sell the book by reminding people of what else SE wrote. But that is pretty much the stupidest thing they could do. At this point, anyone who read and liked MBotF is highly likely to buy this one anyway, they don't need reminding that it's by the same author. But a cover should be attracting NEW interest, not the old interest.

This cover is not going to attract any new readers - which is what its job should be - because new readers will obviously not get the connection.

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#53 worry

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 10:23 PM

I don't disagree with the notion that these two covers aren't wholly exciting, but I also don't think they're big turn-offs either. They're not cartoony, for one thing -- and even now that's still a departure from most fantasy covers, including top-tier stuff like previous Malazan titles, Mistborn, and even some pretty common versions of ASOIAF. So just avoiding that plague is a plus.

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#54 Toraneko

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 03:46 PM

Now I feel like I missed out, because the image on the original post is gone.
Looks terribly generic... Kind of reminds me of the Orcs cover too.

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 04:54 PM

Toraneko, on 01 June 2012 - 03:46 PM, said:

Now I feel like I missed out, because the image on the original post is gone.

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#56 Jussi

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Posted 02 June 2012 - 12:29 PM

Here is a larger image of the new cover:

http://pubimages.ran...id=0593062175-1

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Posted 02 June 2012 - 01:55 PM

generic, but not terrible.

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Posted 02 June 2012 - 05:36 PM

I don't like it. I don't feel like that conveys the culture of the Tiste Andii at all. Why not the three brothers? Or Mother Dark and Father Light? BOOOOOOOO.

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