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Published: 2006-05-28 13:47:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 696; Favourites: 7; Downloads: 66
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Well, I havent been silent for a while for nothing
I was contacted by ~ViviPhalloids about a while ago, and I took on a commission work of a book cover made by some people, the book should be realsed sometime this summer in Lebanon. Technically speaking, this is my first published work
The book's title is Escape, and though its a small book for now (the writer told me she will work on it more), it really captivated it, even though I wasnt expecting much. So i took my time with the cover, working on everything that I felt needs to be there.
Oh, the book is a love story of two vampires. I wont say more.
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Time: 11+ hours
This picture is 90% drawns and painted in photoshop. Most of the charachter's clothes, hair and accessories were painted, you can see the original in here [link] Everything else, (sky, castle, forest...) in drawn, and I am quite proud by it.
The author(s) still havent seen this, so i am hoping they will like it... and it means I can still change a few things, so go ahead and talk about it ...
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wooow dude !!!! i didn't know your soooo good at this, well done
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this will be published (I hope) somewhere this summer... so, am keeping my fingers crossed..
but publishing this got me a push..
what do you think of puting my name somewhere on lebanesebands.com, perhaps to make those bands contact me for their album covers and such... you think am good enough for this? (plz be honest, its the most important thing.)
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fuck your good, yeah man go for it, from what i saw, your covers are sometimes better then those i see in virjin or any other places... if you don't trie it you won't know what would happen...
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OMG I absolutely love this! Her hair is magnificent!
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This is really beautiful! You MUST take a photo of the book when it comes out, with your pic on the front, so we can all see your work in print
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ooh nice job on the clothes et all...
and congrats on getting it printed..
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wow
i didnt know it would turn out this great
really nice...
but sweety is her hair supposed to be like this? i mean is this the final thingy?
it is really good though
Bravoo
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hehe no sweetie...the hair needs more work... and just some finishing touches here and there.... but that's the overall piece that i had in my mind the whole time, so yea am kinda proud of itt
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and im proud of you
your on your way baby
goodluck
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I like this. Looking back at the stock image, the work on the hair (mostly for the guy and not the girl) and clothing look so real that it's insane. However, I think this has what I like to call a 'stage' appearance. The people look so real, but the background looks like a fantasy. Not a bad mix of things, but I just don't think that they were blended very well in this case. For something that was done almost completely from scratch, it's definately not bad. With a little more work, it'll be the epitome of 'kickass'.
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but with her and his hair, I tried to make them look "unreal" as the background is. What do you propose i should do more to get it more like what you said? cause i want, i just dont know how.
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Well, it all kind of has a fairy-tale look. I would suggest making the characters you used from the stock have more of an 'airbrush' look, if you know what I mean. I don't know, that's the first thing that comes to mind.
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this is without doubt some very amazing work my friend... the people that hired you definitely made the right choice!
i love the detail and the colors and the whole feeling of the image! excellent stuff!
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thanks man! really appreciate your comment and support
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Pf stupid me, you can't put images in your journal, duh Bassem.
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They'd better pick it. This would draw any eye to the book. Good work, professional
300 dpi or more with 3mm bleed in CMYK with minimal K, right? otherwise it'll be too dark and flat when printed =/
Personally I wouldn't place jobs in my dA gallery, what with unclear copyright issues and all that. If you put it in your journal you can go around that.
I just took a look at the original. You did a great job turning it around! 
One last nitpick, the smoke is horizontally mirrored and it's too obvious, I'd suggest a less symmetrical look to it to look more like smoke.
You're going from really good to really great. Keep going man, we need more book covers like this in Lebanon!
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thanks for the detailed comment
yes, his hair still needs to be thicker, i've noticed that, and actually did it, but just didnt upload it yet. so, thanks for the pointing that out.
For the smoke, I was hoping to go with the horizontal symetrical, because, if you notice, it gives a shape of a monster, or something sinister, so its made on purpse
yes, def 300dpi and CMYK, its the first thing i thought about
thanks again man!!
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I noticed the face (which is pretty cool by the way 
Seriously, I wanna see this on the book's cover.
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u promised to do my first book thing...dont forget hein?
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Congrats on getting published Sergio! You deserve it.
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wow thats really good! almost picture real! thats great
and congrats for getting published thats awesome
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amazing man really 
but thers somthn about his hair.. i dunno maybe if u can fix it or somthn, but the rest is awesome.
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Looks pretty awesome to me, the grey hair seems to need a bit more work though, seems a bit hmmm flat? Same with the redhead, although hers looks alot better than his imo.
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well, I would definetley take a closer look at this book if I saw it in the stores : )
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