| Author | Message | ||
     Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.154.251.239 |
Tony's covers (which do you prefer)?     | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.154.251.239 |
I've loved them all for a while now! I only noticed recently that they have a slight tinge at the back of the brain about TARDIS... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.229 |
The last one, easily. That figure. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.18.174.156 |
I like the colour scheme of the top one best but the bottom one is more effective because of the figure. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.154.251.239 |
Thanks, that's interesting, Gary. But there something minimal about not having a figure to absorb the attention that attracts me. Like listening to Philip Glass music? | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.18.174.156 |
I suppose one could always imagine a figure - or something else - standing in the shadows of the open doorway. I go for the top one but with the niggling doubt that it still lacks some element of drama. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.154.251.239 |
Thanks, Stevie. If you look closely, I think there might be a face in the top three behind the window. And some other things in the darkness behind the 'tower'? At one stage I was yearning to see the image with its base showing. i.e no door and squat. But I was reminded about Sooty's hem.  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.154.251.239 |
...also I think they are more effective with a white website background, as here in the sidebar: http://expenscusil.wordpress.com/ | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
I'm the same as Stevie - I like the colour scheme of the first, but the figure in the last one. Could Tony perhaps change the background within the tower on the first one and put a shadowy figure in there? But you're right. If you look closely behind the window in the first one there does seem to be something lurking in there - perhaps it just needs to be made a tiny bit more obvious (but not *too* obvious)? | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.18.174.156 |
Given the title, 'The Last Balcony', what about having a strand of diaphonous material just disappearing at the bottom of the picture? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
#3 for me. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.154.251.239 |
First tentative trial cover, I believe:   | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.154.251.239 |
If the publisher eventually decides to confirm this his chosen cover design from Tony's artwork, I shall be very pleased. I believe there will also be artwork inside for the two novellas, by Tony, hopefully. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.18.174.156 |
Looks highly effective with the title in, Des! | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Love it! There IS something lurking behind that window - no need for further definition imo. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.154.251.239 |
Thanks, everyone. There's another one Tony has shown on his Facebook that reminds me of Henri Rousseau. The whole Tony project on this reminds me the development in the Close Encounters 'sculpture' (in a nice way!). | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.141.105.15 |
Oh yes, I forgot to tell you the house was life-size. I'm living in it now. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.154.251.239 |
With Tony's permission:  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.141.105.15 |
I have to add this was a doodle taken on my old mobile phone... (I know, artists and their tools etc) | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.30.130 |
Ah! I like the Rousseauish image! | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.18.174.156 |
It's wonderful! Have you ever been exhibited, Tony? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.141.105.15 |
Only in a kind of zoo-like place, naked. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.18.174.156 |
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| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Excellent all! | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.154.251.239 |
This is not Tony's. Nothing that Tony has seen before. It is an ornament I've had for some years, originally found in a junk shop in Walton on Naze and it sits on my mantlepiece.  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.154.251.239 |
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| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.154.251.239 |
The other side:  | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.51.159 |
I like the top one. The figure in the bottom one is a cheap addition imho, but it might help, because people expect that sort of thing on the cover of a horror book. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.154.251.239 |
I agree that Horror fiction covers have often seemed to be sui generis. Till Tony came along. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.156.210.82 |
I disagree - in recent years, some of the horror covers by the likes of Vincent Chong and Ben Baldwin, et al, have been astonishing and groundbreaking in terms of abandoning the usual genre imagery. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.255.62 |
And don't forget my own artwork for Fusing Horizons. The modern artworld has yet to catch up with this groundbreaking genius. Joking? Me? Never! | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.154.251.239 |
I was never allowed in 'Fusing Horizons', but I had a copy or two. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.18.174.156 |
Something about that little house reminds me of the work of Oliver Postgate. Don't ask me why, Des, but I can see some of his characters living there. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.154.251.231 |
For the APOCRYFAN novella:  For the YESTERFANG novella:  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.154.251.231 |
Sorry: here's the second one again:  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.154.251.231 |
So here's them both again: by Tony Lovell: THE APOCRYFAN:  YESTERFANG:  | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Hard to believe that Tony created that haunting red indian figure out of plasticine!!  I've told him he should take up serious sculpture. The man's talent is wasted as far as I am concerned. The way he is able to integrate photography, painting and 3D figures into such strikingly original yet somehow primal imagery is startlingly impressive. Well done, sir! | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
"Hard to believe that Tony created that haunting red indian figure out of plasticine!!" You're kidding? I'd assumed it was a photo of a statue. Is that really plasticine? Amazing work! | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.151.109.99 |
Good news, I hope. Publication of 'The Last Balcony' is relatively imminent! | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.21.129 |
Very good work, Tony. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.152.62.175 |
The final cover looks lovely. It's a nice book, too. One to cherish. I'm glad to have been able to do this. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.151.109.99 |
I'm excited to report that I believe I have spotted Tony's building in real life. I shall be trying to climb up there as soon as possible when I'm equipped properly:  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.151.109.99 |
...but it may be false alarm like this one happened to be when it was spotted a few weeks ago;  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.151.109.99 |
...and this one wasn't even a contender:  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.151.109.99 |
Btw, I've been seeking this building in real life ever since Tony 'made' it for the cover. Cf: Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I'm confident I'm getting closer. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.140.213.21 |
I managed to climb up higher towards above building today, but I don't think I'm going to be able go any further and read the writing on it.  On this trip, I noticed this and wondered who might live here:  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.140.213.21 |
From here: http://nerdapproved.com/approved-products/tardis-shed-and-dalek-image/ Almost as good as a Tony L building.  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.129.33.32 |
The latest Tony Lovell 'Last Blacony' image lookalike I found in Frinton yesterday (this gatepost):   | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.152.53.233 |
I no longer know Des. Last time I tried to speak with him he sent me an FB "Thumb up". I've started to think there's another version of me out there that pisses people off. Unless I'm just doing it myself. |