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It looks like I’m
going to have to outsource for the photographic version to the cover
of “Circa Sixty Years Dead”. I tried getting together a digital
cover during the week and I just couldn’t do it in the little time
that I have. It’s a hell of a lot tougher than one would at first
think, but a lot of the problem isn’t that it’s tough. A lot of
the problem is that I’m just not a digital artist. I
am a freehand artist. Yet
I know the majority of
the book market today does not call for freehand illustrated book
covers which is
a damn, sad thing because it
is a result of the total reliance on computer
technology that is
robbing the freehand artist of what he/she does
best and puts their
heart and soul into.
So while I don’t
embrace the digital trend in book cover illustration, I need to sell
my books and so I am willing to have a digital cover edition of my
book made. I won’t go into the details of this circumstance here
because I’ve already done that in several past posts. Here are the
titles and links to them:
When I make my book
cover illustrations from my own hands, I do so knowing I’m not
going to make big sales on the books that I apply them too. So, in a
way, I’m sacrificing a bigger bundle of money I would get in order
to help keep freehand art alive and serve the needs and desires of
the minority readership. But to
make sufficient money
from the books, I’ll have to give into that capitalistic notion
that says the
machine makes
the product “better”.
And so I have to offer,
as an option,
a digitally produced cover illustration edition of the book.
If given the choice,
would you purchase an edition of a book with a hand produced cover
illustration over one with a digitally produced one? In doing so, do
you believe you would be contributing to preserving freehand art?
Until next time . .
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