Heh. Okay, one might think I hate the cover and wish I'd never done it. I'm certainly not planning on throwing it in the wastebasket -- if it's not going to be on the cover, I plan on using it *somewhere*. I did too much work on it to do otherwise.
I guess the real point of contention would be that I was *supposed* to make something that would look "Tenniel-esque." And I just don't think the end result looks like something Sir John Tenniel would have drawn, by a long shot. I think it's pretty evident that how I drew this was to first make a photo composite of a bunch of architectural references at oddball angles (and that DID take a lot of work -- as I had to basically twist and redraw a LOT since I couldn't just find everything that would fit perfectly together at the angles I wanted) for a reference, and then start filling in details. I get the feeling that if Tenniel were to tackle something like this, it would probably be something a lot more organic, and have a lot more dynamic use of negative space.
In any case, the lead writer had a more specific motif in mind anyway -- he'd like an image that shows a view of Wonderland as if in a mirror, but cracked down the middle ... with one side being a fairly whimsical-looking Wonderland, but the other being a more twisted, shadowy, menacing version. I think I can work with that. (I'm not sure if the picture itself is going to be "colorized" or not. It depends on what I can do with the rest of the cover, I suppose. It might be nice if I could come up with something that would plausibly look like a Victorian-era book cover, but that might be too tall an order, especially since I have a logo to work in.)
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Date: 2021-02-27 11:41 pm (UTC)I guess the real point of contention would be that I was *supposed* to make something that would look "Tenniel-esque." And I just don't think the end result looks like something Sir John Tenniel would have drawn, by a long shot. I think it's pretty evident that how I drew this was to first make a photo composite of a bunch of architectural references at oddball angles (and that DID take a lot of work -- as I had to basically twist and redraw a LOT since I couldn't just find everything that would fit perfectly together at the angles I wanted) for a reference, and then start filling in details. I get the feeling that if Tenniel were to tackle something like this, it would probably be something a lot more organic, and have a lot more dynamic use of negative space.
In any case, the lead writer had a more specific motif in mind anyway -- he'd like an image that shows a view of Wonderland as if in a mirror, but cracked down the middle ... with one side being a fairly whimsical-looking Wonderland, but the other being a more twisted, shadowy, menacing version. I think I can work with that. (I'm not sure if the picture itself is going to be "colorized" or not. It depends on what I can do with the rest of the cover, I suppose. It might be nice if I could come up with something that would plausibly look like a Victorian-era book cover, but that might be too tall an order, especially since I have a logo to work in.)