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Friday, August 21, 2015
CAPTAIN BLOOD RETURNS - Rafael Sabatini (1963 ed) (cover by Robert McGinnis)
original 1963 cover
cleaned up
contemporized for current tastes
and finally, a copy of how Robert McGinnis painted it:
It's pretty amazing I have so many things I've picked up over the years...I never realized that this was a Robert McGinnis cover. And then once I started to clean it up I realized that Captain Blood has a certain Sean Connery quality to his features. Speaking of 'cleaning up' I really enjoy doing that but I often regret that sometimes things change so much from the artist's original intent. For a lot of different reasons; cheap printing, poor scans, limited photoshop skills, etc. etc. With this one I just wanted to contemporize it a bit (for the fun of it and a as design exercise). fyi: I borrowed the color palette from the 'Mad Max: Fury Road' ad campaign for the BG colors. I really liked what the Warner Bros publicity department tried with that and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. ads this summer.
It's pretty amazing I have so many things I've picked up over the years...I never realized that this was a Robert McGinnis cover. And then once I started to clean it up I realized that Captain Blood has a certain Sean Connery quality to his features. Speaking of 'cleaning up' I really enjoy doing that but I often regret that sometimes things change so much from the artist's original intent. For a lot of different reasons; cheap printing, poor scans, limited photoshop skills, etc. etc. With this one I just wanted to contemporize it a bit (for the fun of it and a as design exercise). fyi: I borrowed the color palette from the 'Mad Max: Fury Road' ad campaign for the BG colors. I really liked what the Warner Bros publicity department tried with that and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. ads this summer.
ReplyDeleteThanks Rocket!
ReplyDeleteI'll take the cleaned-up version. The contemporary one, no likey.