Book Cover Ideas

So, I had originally planned on creating a collage-type image for the book covers. You know like... when you see a ransom note, it is a collage of different fonts cut out from magazines. Only I was going to try to do that with the imagery. So yesterday I went out to the thrift stores/goodwills/etc. But to check out different book covers I went to Barnes & Noble to perhaps get some inspiration as far as layout, type, and the like. I saw a book there about Hunter S. Thompson. On the book cover was a drawing done by Ralph Steadman. So Yesterday I changed my idea and am now going along with Ralph Steadman style for my book covers. Ive been working on both (rad maker and books) but leaning towards working on the books more for some reason, so I haven't really done anything else for the rad maker poster series. whatev

3 Book Covers

Originally I was going to choose the "Spine Tinglers" group of books (duh), but for the sake of diversity in my portfolio I have decided to go with something else. I choose the "Violence" group. It includes A Clockwork Orange, In Cold Blood and Hells Angels. I know what A Clockwork Orange is about, I love the movie. However, I have not read and do not know a great deal about the other two titles. I can assume that Hells Angels has to do with the motorcycle gang, but no real knowledge on what the book actually contains. In Cold Blood is about the murder of a wealthy farming family of four, committed by two parolees. I have researched and done a little bit of reading on each, but hopefully I can come up with some good ideas that will work well for the book series with the information I have attained thus far. Ill keep you posted.

James Victore

So Kate hooked me up with James Victore. We pretty much hit it off, and now we're getting married. I had heard of him before, mostly just HEARD of him. I had only seen a couple of his pieces before I started to research and check out some links that Kate sent to me. As far as I understand we are creating and presenting an homage to this artist. Not necessarily appropriating the work, but don't keep that out of mind. So here are a couple pieces of his that I really enjoy.