oooh, shiny list. I'd forgotten about Niven and Pournelle, actually - I should check and see what they've done lately, since I liked a lot of their other stuff.
de Lint does indeed get some awesome covers. Mmmm, I love me some John Howe.
I love Kim Newman who combines encyclopedic knowledge of real and fictional Victoriana into terrific books. I recommend Anno Dracula.
As to the first picture, I think he's too "standy-uppy" as a young friend of mine once told me. If he can fly, I recommend a moredynamic "light on his wings" sort of pose. At the very least, wrap his tail around the front of him for further dyamism.
The second is proceeding well, but I'm still not buying the perspective in the wolfy midground
Oooh, Newman does sound cool. Sherlock Holmes references make me happy all on their own.
Yeah, the B&B stuff... I've tried one too many times to give them something dynamic or interesting, and I get shot down and told to redo it each time. Gotta give people what they want, but by now I'd rather just keep 90% of the stuff I do for them out of my portfolio than keep rolling boulders uphill.
Hmmm. Okay, I'll doublecheck the perspective, I guess - not really sure how to fix it other than what I did, though, unless it's the buildings that are bothering you.
B&B? The acronym doesn't ring a bell, but I'm sleep deprived at present...They sound like the bad news in any case.
I see 3 different ground planes in that piece, that are not united to my taste as yet. I would suggest a gridded line of sidewalk or lines in a road or fallen timbers, et al. Something to unite the foreground, midground and background. THough I may just be unnecessarily anal about such...
Beasts and Beings - I can't entirely pooh-pooh them, since they pay faster and with less nagging than any US company I've yet worked for, and they've pretty much single-handedly paid my bills for most of this year, since they provide so much continuous work. It's just one more motivation to keep trying to get longer-deadline/better-paying work, and it gives me some job security in the meantime.
Ah - makes sense. I'll see how some road lines work; I imagine I could work those in and have them make sense in context.
Yeah, I read the first one. It didn't contain enough conflict for me, and I didn't think the main character was an interesting enough narrator to make up for it. I'm sure it's purposeful, since it reminds me of the Austen/Horatio Hornblower style, but it doesn't happen to be my cup of tea.
Temeraire was cute, though, especially when he did the "humans are confusing" bits.
Oooh, I'll give HaveMercy a shot - I'd forgotten about that one. Haven't read the Vorkosigan books yet; I seem to remember hearing that they had a lot of romance, which doesn't tend to float my boat. (I could be misremembering, though
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I tried Privilege of the Sword, which I thought was cute but had some unremarkable bits, though I bet it would've utterly charmed me when I was younger. I'll give Swordspoint a shot, though - it looks like the protagonist in that one is an adult, which tends to resolve a lot of my fiction annoyances.
(For extra amusement: the book is literally filed in our library under call number GAY. I couldn't make this stuff up...)
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for pure cover love, the first author that leaps to mind is Charles de Lint.
love the Jim Butcher picture, its going to end up looking fantastic!
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de Lint does indeed get some awesome covers. Mmmm, I love me some John Howe.
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As to the first picture, I think he's too "standy-uppy" as a young friend of mine once told me. If he can fly, I recommend a moredynamic "light on his wings" sort of pose. At the very least, wrap his tail around the front of him for further dyamism.
The second is proceeding well, but I'm still not buying the perspective in the wolfy midground
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Yeah, the B&B stuff... I've tried one too many times to give them something dynamic or interesting, and I get shot down and told to redo it each time. Gotta give people what they want, but by now I'd rather just keep 90% of the stuff I do for them out of my portfolio than keep rolling boulders uphill.
Hmmm. Okay, I'll doublecheck the perspective, I guess - not really sure how to fix it other than what I did, though, unless it's the buildings that are bothering you.
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B&B? The acronym doesn't ring a bell, but I'm sleep deprived at present...They sound like the bad news in any case.
I see 3 different ground planes in that piece, that are not united to my taste as yet.
I would suggest a gridded line of sidewalk or lines in a road or fallen timbers, et al. Something to unite the foreground, midground and background.
THough I may just be unnecessarily anal about such...
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Ah - makes sense. I'll see how some road lines work; I imagine I could work those in and have them make sense in context.
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Temeraire was cute, though, especially when he did the "humans are confusing" bits.
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(For extra amusement: the book is literally filed in our library under call number GAY. I couldn't make this stuff up...)
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