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Workshops Ink Watercolour Pencil Airbrush mix story elements on a book cover The Lord of the Rings illustrator and concept artist John howe explains how he composed a book jacket illustration for fantasy writer Robin Hobb 110 August 2017
Artist insight Book cover © Subterranean Press Subterranean Press contacted me to create full-cover dust jackets for a new and limited edition of Robin Hobb’s Farseer trilogy. In reply to my query about a cover brief, the publisher replied that there was none: I had free rein to do as I wished. Naturally, this sounded like a dream commission, but of course it meant making many decisions above and beyond the actual subject matter: layout, placement of titles, fonts and more. I was intent on installing two things: a proximity to the characters, and a depiction of wide landscapes. I decided that the best way to avoid “posing” characters – equivalent to a modern-day snapshot taken in front of a tourist-friendly vista – was to make use of vignettes. I did all three sketches at once and sent them off. These were pencil scribbles, scanned and rendered in sepia with white highlights, which is an efficient way of adding focus and depth. I was also aware that hiding the dragon’s head behind the vignette was a bit risky, and considered trying to shift it, but in the end it stayed where it was. Approval came back from both publisher and author with no revisions, so I got going on the originals themselves straight away. The main image was done separately from the vignette. It’s never a good idea to paint one image over another unless there’s some purely pictorial or decorative reason for doing so. Should the smaller image need to be moved, it’s best to have it as a separate original. Equally, for sub-rights use, a third party just might want to licence the main image without the vignette. John is a full-time illustrator and concept artist, who helped shape the look of the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. You can discover more of his art at www.john-howe.com. August 2017 111
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