Nov 24
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You know the two things that make everything look fantastic? Glow and blur. The best photoshop tools money can buy. So we’ll have a glowing blurry tattooed man with a wolves head! And some girl with some glowly blurry transparency around her. Make sure the title is huge and don’t forget to blur what you can.

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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • Darren Hopes • fairies • glow • HarperCollins Books • magic • Melissa Marr • once you see it • strange creature • tattoo you • Unknown Artist Institute • wolf • wolf people
Nov 23
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OH OH OH! Let’s have a half naked man grasping his magic electrified sword around waist height. That sounds suggestive? Of course it is, he’s holding a sword right next to his baby maker. A ha ha ha. Don’t forget to overload the whole cover with text, a lot of text, in all shapes and sizes.

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Tagged with: Alyssa Day • Berkley Books • bladed weapons • dude • electricity • font problems • magic • muscles • sixpack abs • sword • Unknown Artist Institute • Warriors of Poseidon series
Nov 20
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You know what you thought? You thought, you’d seen everything anyone could possibly do with a dragon. Well, you’re wrong. Three words for you to eat today, ‘Dragons In Space’! Oh yes, and trying to decipher the controls of a space ship! I mean, dragons can read, right?

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Tagged with: Anne McCaffrey • Corgi Books • dragon • planets • space • space ships • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown publisher • WTF
Nov 17
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We all know what men want. Hunky muscles and tight underwear. No? Uh, strange stone monoliths? No? Leopard skin capes. No? Three horns coming out of his skull? What, seriously, no? Alright, have them all, but add two naked women caressing him. Classy eh? Actually, don’t answer me this time.
Thanks to CSA!

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Tagged with: A.E. van Vogt • cleavage • cloaks • damsel • dude • geometric oddities • glow • horns • muscles • once you see it • Panther Books • suggestive • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Nov 16
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A hunky half-naked muscle encrusted man standing in a strange mist, while casting a magic fireball from his hand. The book’s called flame, so how could we not have one! Though, to go one step further, have him looking thoughtfully at the fire in his hand. That way people will think he’s all sensitive and deep.

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Tagged with: Berkley Books • dude • fire • Jean Johnson • lens flare • magic • magical orbs • muscles • nonsensical shadows • sixpack abs • The Sons of Destiny series • Unknown Artist Institute
Nov 11
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Realism is our key to success. I’m talking about a dude in a space suit and a very large dome helmet. The face inside must be like a photograph so people can really imagine the scene is real. Don’t forget the explosions, lasers and space robots!

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Tagged with: Allan Cole • bubble helmet • casually walking away from an explosion • Chris Bunch • dude • explosion • frickin laser beams • helmet-cam • ill-fitting spacesuit • once you see it • robots • shoulder pads • space • space ships • space station • Sten series • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown publisher
Oct 22
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In the future pilots won’t just be piloting boring old planes or space ships. No! They’ll be piloting space scooters! Retro space scooters!! Going from space station to station, wearing their retro spacesuits and carrying their cargo of little blue blobs with little tentacles. No? Well, just draw it and hopefully it will come true by 2010.
Thanks to Dave K!

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Tagged with: damsel • dragon • Dragon books • Laura J. Mixon • Omni Odyssey series • once you see it • planets • space • space brain • space ships • tentacles • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Oct 01
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Draw a few dinosaurs and some people jet-packing around the planet. That way we have both words of the title covered. Though, concentrate on the title, huge black box, every word highlighted with something awesome. You don’t know what that means? For God’s sake man, like, put the word ‘Anne’ in an orange diamond shape. That’s the type of awesome I’m talking about!

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Tagged with: Anne McCaffrey • dinosaur • font problems • Mystery of Ireta series • rocket-pack • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown publisher
Sep 23
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The year was 1967… it was the summer of love and we sat the whole team around a field and…… I almost remembered something there…. but it’s gone. When we all awoke three days later we had this.

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Tagged with: Corgi Books • Hal Clement • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Sep 14
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With books today, you know what people are too obsessed with? That’s right, art! Why not (and you are going to love this) just have a female model dressed up as a pirate, teasing a little as she holds her swords to her lofty chest. With the addition of a terrible font we’ll draw a completely accurate picture of how things were like in ‘ye olden days.’

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Tagged with: Berkley Books • bladed weapons • bracers • cleavage • daggers • damsel • Elizabeth Vaughan • Epic of Palins series • sword • Unknown Artist Institute • waistcoat
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