Hell Of Death book cover Illustration process
hello!
Hell Of Death is an upcoming novel by the mighty Vince Kramer, Author of "Gigantic Death Worm", "Death Machines Of Death" and "Deadly Lazer Explodathon".
https://www.amazon.com/Vince-Kramer/e/B0063X4TF0
I had the honor to make cover illustrations for all of his books and when i got an e-mail from Rose (editor of Eraserhead Press) saying that Vince had just written another crazy story i was stoked !
for the cover they requested a "giant goofy heavy metal version of Satan in the fiery pits of hell."
whoa nice! i could imagine how that would look like but i was a bit rusty with painting.
i googled for references but for this one i wanted to give everything so i took a reference pic of myself.
hell it was so good i just traced it ! :D
a masterpiece of photography for sure!
and also goofy enough so i went on detailing the thing. hell yeah!
"satant rules" was requested to be written on the t-shirt so i added that :
now i started to paint the fiery pits of hell -
satan had to be huge so the hell-scape had to be very tiny but i still wanted to have some demons and tortured souls in there.
added some color
and more detailing - also used some phot-textures for the flames
and the final image with more contrast and some more polishing here and there.
there are some tiny details that nobody will ever be able to see on the book cover but it will look nice on a poster. :)
hope you enjoyed this!
and dont forget to check out Vince´s books ! :)
cant wait to read Hell Of Death!
cheers
and see you laters
hauke
This is an awesome illustration and you created it perfectly for the request that you got! He is cool, scary and he rocks!
Oh, and you are brave to share such personal photo :D I can see why it has inspired you :D
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hello thank you ! and lol yes i guess i´m brave to show that photo ...but i confess it is kinda calculated. :D
the other day i saw a video about Jack Black and how confident he is- how he just slouches on the sofa and sticks out his belly when he is in an interview. he does the most ridiculous dances being 100% happy with himself. it seems like that putting yourself on purpose in uncomfortable situations actually enhances self-confidence because that is what the audience perceives. re-enforcing feedback loop... weird but it works ! lol
Hahaha, as long as it works! But I agree with you.. I love to see people being confident with their bodies and showing them off :) We are all unique and perfect in our own way so why shouldn't we show it ;) I have actually thought that Jack Black was very similar in his private life to the characters that he played :D You can't play such crazy people unless you're also at least a little bit crazy :)
I love it Hauke :D it looks really metal and infernal and ........... cute, too XD
gorgeous definition and colours and the detailing at the background and on the melting earth is wonderful!!!! <3333
many thanks veryspider ! :)
OMG. Such a mind blowing piece in there. I love everything about your art. Keep it up
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hello ferrate! thank you so much ! wont only keep it up i will get the ball rolling for real :D cheers man !
That's the artist spirit. I know you will always do more of you
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yay!
Hell yeah, this is awesome. You are such a funny guy and so fun!!! Definitely that's a masterpiece of photography bwahaha.
The end result looks good, but it's the process that I enjoyed the most in this post. Good one, Hauke :).
lol yeah i actually used an old webcam to take that pic :D thank you crawly !
Hi @papersmell , the result is amazing! I'm sure your client must be more than happy with it, congratulations!
😂😂😂😂I don't really know if this is a compliment, but you would be a hell of a devil. This is really nice. I'm just wondering why the devil is always made to look ugly. From the bible, he was an archangel and since angels are seen as beautiful, satan could be beautiful.
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hehe thank you so much ! and yeah the topic also made my head spin quite a bit
Luv it!
hey thank you so much glad you like it ! :)