NIKOLAI DANTE | BY FRAZER IRVING
| Danteâ??s kinda ugly in this one. Basically the brief called for dante giving the finger to the world, with the hand up front and big. I toyed with the angle to present it from, and this was a bit lagered-up in itâ??s tone I felt... |
| This was more sedate, TOO sedate in fact. I dug the placement of the head and stuff, but it didnâ??t look like Dante was pissed off enough, so it was rejected. |
| This one hit the spot. The placement of the head and hand worked, and the angle was enough to suggest that Dante was actually facing a foe. The final version altered that angle a tad, getting Dante to sneer at us, but this was the composition that won everyone over. |
| I felt this was closest to the actual story, but the composition was all wrong. Danteâ??s head had to be higher than his hand in the frame. Bah. |
| This is the red version I tried. I felt it had shades of Gansta rap about it, and I liked it. So much, in fact, that it now adorns my business card. |
| Thargâ??s brief for this cover was simple: Dante giving us the finger. The idea was to produce a simple and bold image without a background as Robo-Cook was gonna do something with it. The deadline was tight (overnight) so I had ta think quick....this is the final coloured version that I devised first. The brief from Tharg was to make it look like old russian propoganda posters, and I know they used a lot of contrasting colours to create a sense of shock. I thought it worked well with the bold lines that Iâ??d inked in (which was da plan, man...) but the standard artists worry kicked in and I thought â??o no, maybe itâ??s TOO much....â? so I did a red version instead. Neednâ??t have bothered, as this went down well with tharg. Presented here as supplied with full bleed and no background. |
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