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     Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.168.20.12 |
Amazing! - by Tony Lovell Which do you prefer? http://horroranthology.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/tony-lovells-front-cover-images/ | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.156.210.82 |
All of them are fucking brilliant. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.142.241.230 |
I agree with Zed, but the top right is my favourite. The top left looks to me like a literary vagina in the process of giving birth. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.156.210.82 |
I like the one with the face looking up... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.156.210.82 |
Bottom left... | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.168.20.12 |
The sixth one has now been changed - as I mistakenly put the same one there as the first. | ||
| Rhysaurus (Rhysaurus) Username: Rhysaurus Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 212.219.233.223 |
The first one is still the best for me. But all are good. And if it looks like a literary vagina, so much the better, surely!? | ||
| Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer) Username: Matthew_fryer Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.195.182.194 |
Tough call, they're all fantastic. Personally I can narrow it down to top 2, and bottom left. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.152.191.186 |
I like number three. And vaginas. Thanks everyone! | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Aww, I can't see this on work computer. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.24.83 |
Hey, well done, Tony! I think my favourite is the first one. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.143.140 |
Very nice - how did you do it? | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Great stuff, Tony. The top left, bottom left and bottom right images are all excellent. By including the words 'vagina' and 'bottom' this thread has hit the search engine optimisation jackpot. I can't help suspecting some kind of high-level conspiracy to achieve that goal. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
But by God, Proto, it was a photograph from life! | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.143.140 |
Ha! | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
"By including the words 'vagina' and 'bottom' this thread has hit the search engine optimisation jackpot. I can't help suspecting some kind of high-level conspiracy to achieve that goal." Not quite. It also needs to include the words cock, sex and coffee. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.109.21 |
Thanks folks! I just spent over three days making another model for another concept of the cover (I liked it more) only to find it too tricky to do (it nearly broke my printer trying to do one process). This idea took half a sweaty hour at 2.00 yesterday as there was a tiny bit of a deadline. The pics were taken with my phone. It's plasticene, Proto, covered in bits of local newsapaper stuck in a book on voodoo (this for people who like as much detail as I do). | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.156.210.82 |
Tony, seriously, these are brilliant. I've always said you were a terrific artist. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.182.119 |
"It's plasticene, Proto, covered in bits of local newsapaper stuck in a book on -- " [interupting] Ah! Magic, you say... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.109.21 |
Yes - I was just trying not to freak people out with that description! Yes, magic it was! Thanks, Zed! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.109.21 |
BTW, minimal as it is, I do like that last pic, all the empty blackness. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Hee-hee. Very cool. I thought those were computer generated! Funny how a little head poking out of things can inspire such disquiet. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
This is surreal. I can't see them but been getting all these weird images from what you guys are saying. Little heads poking out of vaginas... WTF?! | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
This thread now also contains the word head It's getting closer to the ultimate collection... Zed give us your favourite word to complete the set... | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Wow, Tony, those are fantastic! And hearing how you did them makes them even more brilliant. I thought at first they were computer generated - but plasticine? Aardman Animations, eat your hearts out!  For me, I think it's either the top two, or the bottom right. The one at bottom right looks like he's in a coffin. | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.165.240.116 |
Brilliant, Tony! I like #2, but they're all really good. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.196.155 |
I think they work so well because we somehow know they're real, with the subsequent realisation that someone took the time to physically do all of that. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.196.155 |
Stewart Lee, though a very alienating comedian, did a good bit of stand-up nostalgia comedy: "Does anyone remember matter? The world of matter? Physical things? Yeah? Remember when things existed?" | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 121.90.36.187 |
Good work. I think number five is the best. | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
There are all fantastic, but I think bottom left - number five, is it? - is the best. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 220.138.164.22 |
Good stuff, Tony! I like the first one and the third one most. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.168.20.12 |
Tow new images from Tony at the bottom of above link. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
Tony- that's fantastic work! Only just seen it. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.19.77 |
Those are fabulous! Very professional looking. 2, 5 and 6 are my favourites but very hard to settle on one. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.19.77 |
Those are fabulous! Very professional looking. 2, 5 and 6 are my favourites but very hard to settle on one. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.145.130.47 |
Is that why you posted it twice? | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
It's like New York, New York. So good they named it twice! | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Oh, forgot to say, not so keen on the two new covers - I prefer the ones with the book. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.93.2 |
Caroline - I'm trying to go from site to site trying to explain that those last two aren't cover proposal but rather my trying to show a couple of people I'd made the head and not 'bought them in a thrift store'. Folks - it's not a cover!!!! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.93.2 |
I have to say, since doing this model (and another) I seem to have lost the ability to write. I haven't written a word in almost a month. It's shattering. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Don't be shattered, Tony. It happens to everyone. It might look like all RCMBers are churning out novellas like there's no tomorrow (partly because there probably isn't one), but the truth is that creative energy resembles sexual energy in being variable, unreliable and following some secret schedule of its own that doesn't fit with our plans or opportunities. Don't stress about it. Keep making time available for writing, keep noting useful ideas and planning stories, stockpile images and thoughts and experiences, and soon enough you'll be storytelling away. The muse needs a holiday every now and then. He/she/it will return if you keep the door open and the coffee brewing. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.93.2 |
Thanks, Joel. I have to say, doing this artwork (my first in about a decade) has been stiring things up a bit. It's like it's from another part of the brain, and like Tinkerbell I can only feel/think one thing at a time. I've also undergone a big change to my circumstances, and my days are no longer the shape they once were. It's like a house move; it's hard to write when that happens, too. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.157.26.75 |
Tony, I'm not using those last two images in the book, rest assured. the book's going well. And Tony - judging by the stories I've published of yours (three, including the Ha of Ha one) - and the artwork for Ha of Ha - well, not to put too fine a point on it - you are great at both! Good luck with both. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.93.2 |
Thanks, Des! My problem is I have to wait for these things to come to me. Sitting down and trying never seems to conjure things. Trying to force things makes me look like Doris Stokes. I dunno - maybe I need to go out somewhere on my own for a bit, be 'scared' by something. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Tony, I'm genuinely surprised some people were daft enough to mistake the last two images for cover shots, given the professionalism and imagination of the first six. It was clear to me, and anyone with half a brain, that you were giving us a glimpse into the creative process. You have revealed yourself as a staggeringly gifted renaissance man, sir. Congratulations. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.157.26.75 |
I think it was more my way of presenting them, Stevie, by accident implying they were more cover shots. I hope I've now clarified my original intention. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
I think I'm the daft one who misread Des's post and thought they were further cover ideas. Sorry, everyone!  My fault for reading and posting quickly whilst I've got a thousand other things to do and not giving it my full attention. Crawls back under stone and hides ... | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.19.77 |
Sorry, Caroline. That'll teach me to read further up the thread before posting. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
No worries, Stevie.  My brain cells really are misfiring, so you inadvertently hit the nail on the head! Can I come out from under my stone now, or is Tony still upset with me for potentially getting other people on other boards thinking they were proposed cover images too? * emerges gingerly from under her stone * | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
If you needed to hide under a stone, Caroline, then there really would be no hope for the rest of us. You are the sweet conscience of RCMB. I'm just the happily wittering buffoon. |