Alright, we all know I have a thing for crows by now, I'm sure. So when assigned to make a SLAM (Student Literary Arts Magazine) cover, I had to go with a native-american styled crow. (Fun fact: According to something like the 'native American zodiac' if you care to call it that, I'm a Raven. I don't really take stock in these things, but it's a cute factoid, though I have no idea who establishes these zodiac rules).
With it, I made a little raven Folio. The next one is a cover comprised of pictures from my trip to the UK. There's two irish coasts, a British building, and a statue of Sherlock Holmes all in the same image. For a folio, there was nothing especially iconic from the latter picture, so I drew up a quick version of Sherlock's pipe. It might be cheating a bit, but it was the best I had.
I used Photoshop and my Cintiq tablet to create all four images, the Crow cover being entirely my drawings and some royalty-free stock images of the moon and the Earth (though the ravens were based on some royalty-free stock photos as well), and the Holmes cover being entirely my own photos with filters and colouring. I couldn't say which was harder, but I had to press my imagination a bit to come up with new ideas.
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