Helm wrote:The Warhammer 40K image posted in this thread is made by hand and it's by far the sharpest in here heh
Right, the two images I posted are also done by Martin Hanford (which I assume also did Iron Man shown above). The Warhammer 40K is an older one from the original game from 1987, obviously made by hand, while the one above it with the chubby trader is a coverartwork from 2006 for a CONAN RPG game packaging, which prompts me to make an educated guess Maritn is not stranger to digital medium either.
By the way I said my examples would be food for thought. My cover is digital. The close-up was posted only to show that when zoomed in all boils down to the same human hand strokes, regardless on pallet with stylus or real brush on canvas.
I kinda like the amateurish look on some covers like Black Hole's "Land Of Mystery" and most of the time I don't think that a great painting or drawing necessarily makes for a good cover. The pic Stormspell posted is an example. As a work of art, is pretty cool, but as a cover I don't like it. It doesn't really hit me and makes me intrigued or interested in buying the album. A worse drawing like Fistful Of Metal actually works better as an album cover, in my opinion.
Oh boy, Iron Maiden covers of course, Cirith Ungol, Dan Seagrave (especially *Like an everflowing stream*, *Testimony of the ancients*, *Clandestine*), first Beherit..... ummmm, first Mayhem, the Kittelsen Burzum ones, first Necromantia full-length and tons more that I can't think of...
Satan is Our Pal wrote:Cheap skulls and dodgy band logos will do me fine.
Very true. I still like the works of Larnoy and Whelan though. Also, I like the smoke and fire, the bending and forging of metals of early Anvil and Running Wild + Malicious Intent by Razor and the burning of guitars on Accept's Restless and Wild, it may look cheesy at a closer look, but it still is the stuff the ten year old headbanger's dreams of Heavy Metal are made of (It may help having been that ten year old headbanger in 1982 though I guess).
Yuk! His neon colours just is too much. I like some of his old stuff but usually.. yuk!
haha thats what i like from him HIS USE OF COLORS!..i prefer covers that can caught my attention at first sight, and still be metal at the same time ha!
good pictures also always make good covers! (see Tyrant-Too late to pray)
GJ wrote:Also, I like the smoke and fire, the bending and forging of metals of early Anvil and Running Wild + Malicious Intent by Razor and the burning of guitars on Accept's Restless and Wild, it may look cheesy at a closer look, but it still is the stuff the ten year old headbanger's dreams of Heavy Metal are made of (It may help having been that ten year old headbanger in 1982 though I guess).
No worries, as the spirit of metal will pass on to the next generations too. I'm born in '85 but love the covers you mentioned.
And about Maiden.. Sanctuary and Piece Of Mind covers rule the most
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