Anatomy of a Todd Lockwood book cover

Filed by: Darren Turpin on December 17, 2008 at 18:55
Filed under: Fantastic Art

Via Suvudu, a link to a highly interesting couple of posts by multi award-winning fantasy artist Todd Lockwood that explains the creative process behind of the cover for the latest R. A. Salvatore Drizzt Do'Urden novel, The Pirate King.

From this:

Pirate King cover sketch

All the way through to this:

Pirate King cover finished

The series includes a third post which focuses on the detail of the main character, with a short video demonstrating how the layers of detail were built up. Fascinating stuff if, like me, you have a keen interest in fantasy art but very little in the way of artistic talent and know-how.

Both images obviously copyright (c) Todd Lockwood. Click on them for the relevant blog posts explaining the earlier and later stages of the process.

Filed on: December 17, 2008
Filed under: Fantastic Art
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2 Responses to 'Anatomy of a Todd Lockwood book cover'

  1. Dave on December 17th, 2008 10:46 pm

    You see the top pic? Easy for me. The finished product? No way no how. Todd is an incredible artist! :-) Have you seen Michael Komarck's stuff?

  2. Darren Turpin on December 18th, 2008 8:21 am

    Michael Komarck? Oh, aye! Big fan of his texturing - love the grungey feel he gives a lot of his environments, and the dynamism of his arrangements as well - always a lot going on in a Komarck piece :)

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