Mar 23
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Chess? I’m sure that’s interesting and all but that gives me nothing to work with. No wait.. it does. Pink! Pink everything up, go for the windowed look, and make sure there are lots of things blurred slightly by the light. Maybe they’ll miss out on the chess part completely!

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Tagged with: Arthurian legend • boring • castle • chess • damsel • dude • Futura Publications • Sharan Newman • shields • Unknown Artist Institute
Mar 22
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Women love their horses and I’m pretty sure everyone grows up wanting that pony all their life. So that’s what we’ll give ’em. Except give the horse a certain quality, an almost surprised expression as he stares off into the vast distance. And give the L&D letters of the title a black fill. I can’t see that one back-firing.

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • bracers • cloaks • damsel • Dark Horse series • font problems • forest • Fred Fields • glowing eyes • horses • horses with hairstyles • Mary H. Herbert • once you see it • sword • TSR Books
Mar 19
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Look, I am busy – what the hell do you want? Cover ideas? My god, man. You’re new here, right? Here’s the sheet, it has everything we need. Huge terrible multicoloured fonts, obligatory best selling author line and something like a women in a space suit looking generally awful. Don’t worry kid, you’ll pick it up soon enough. Then you’ll be one with us. Don’t run… don’t run…

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Tagged with: Baen Books • Bob Eggleton • bubble helmet • damsel • David Weber • font problems • planets • shuriken of approval • space • space ships
Mar 17
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Naked people? You’re right, we can’t have two yellow glowing buck-naked people standing on some far away planet, with the man pointing upwards towards some awful green moon that takes up 80% of the cover. Oh I know, cover their jibblets with some storks. And we’re sorted!
Happy St. Patricks day! – Good Show Sir

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Tagged with: beard-wielding • bird • C.S. Lewis • Cosmic series • damsel • dude • fantastical rock star • glow • HarperCollins Books • muscles • planets • space • Space Trilogy • starkers • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute
Mar 11
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When you think of a daemonic ritual you think about, gold five pointed stars, lots of gargoyle creatures sitting around and a golden sparkle female rising up in a plume of golden magic with the sharpest of teeth, right? No? Well just draw it or you don’t get paid!

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Tagged with: Chris Brown • daemons • damsel • Dangerous Energy series • evil • glow • Gollancz Books • John Whitbourn • magic • WTF
Mar 10
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Holy crap. We need something to distract from that bright silver font we’re using. So, how about a guy with an eye patch posing with weapons and a women doing the very same thing. Put a moon in the background, and by background I mean most of the cover.

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Tagged with: ax-wielding • BEHIND YOU! • black number one • bladed weapons • cloaks • daggers • damsel • dude • eyepatch • font problems • Hawk & Fisher series • Jon Sullivan • moon • Orion Books • proportional issues • shiny oh so shiny • Simon R. Green • space • sword • waistcoat • WTF
Mar 09
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A collection of fantasy stories? Well I know what they’ll want. A huge barbarian with a ponytail swinging his axe at randomly placed wood. Hmm, you’re right, needs thickened out. Throw a stereotype wizard/fireball combination in there and some damsel with a sword.

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Tagged with: Alan Dean Foster • Andre Norton • ax-wielding • Baen Books • beard-wielding • Bill Fawcett • bladed weapons • bracers • Brian Thomsen • damsel • David Drake • David Weber • dude • Elizabeth Moon • Faux-nan • Jeff Easley • Jody Lynn Nye • loincloth • magic • magical orbs • Mercedes Lackey • Mickey Zucker Reichert • Mike Resnick • Robert Asprin • sword • weird pecs • Wizaaaaaaaard!
Mar 04
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I’ve been on that Good Show Sir site and I know everything at the moment is about nipples! Here my friend we will defy convention. Cleavage but no nipples. Also, she’ll be kinda silver, jumping out of awful looking flames towards a star. Oh yeahhh, consider that convention defied!

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Tagged with: alien city • Ann Maxwell • cleavage • damsel • Elizabeth Lowell • fire • Orbit Books • planets • space
Mar 03
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Look, we need to appeal to both genders here. So we’ll have a male body fused with a female body from head to toe, in a kinda strange almost rubbery way. Obviously we’ll only show some cleavage because the last thing we’d want on there is a huge Johnson.
Thanks to Nix!

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Tagged with: BEHIND YOU! • cleavage • damsel • devil's dumplings • dude • exposed brain • font problems • Futura Publications • Meyer Dolinsky • Michael Adams • Mike Adams • Mike Dolinsky • starkers • statuesque • Unknown Artist Institute
Feb 25
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The great artists of our time had a formula for where the human eye would automatically look to when presented with a work of art. At that precise point I know exactly what we need. A huge horse’s head, in pain, as it gets speared by a crazed redhead.

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • damsel • DAW Books • dude • font problems • Gordon Crabb • horses • Jim Burns • magic • pole weapons • S.L. Farrell • spear • staff • surprised horse • The Cloudmages series
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