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Friday, April 8, 2011

Cover design option


I like this option, it really goes well with the premise of the book - the creative process as the unknown, shadow world of art. Here's a better way of saying it:


[From "The Art of Art": The art of the Process >Process Awareness]

For most people - including quite a few artists - great art is a kind of magic: the talented artist (gifted by genes, the gods, or luck) experiences a supernatural moment of inspiration, and his pen (or CGI software, or word processor) starts pouring out pure gold. Believing that this is what the work of a "real" artist should look like, no wonder a mere mortal artist would feel frustrated that he alone, talentless and uninspired as he is, must work hard to achieve results. Such an artist would do well to remember the following quote from Michelangelo (also known as "the divine"): "if people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."

2 comments:

  1. Hey,
    I really like the working title and how you played with the shadow there.
    Maybe worth more research of the right font and colors. Also in the header, which is almost invisible.

    The blog has a nice flow BTW.

    Good luck

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  2. Thanks mate. I totally agree, the current design is more of an elaborated sketch than the final cover art.

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