First off, let me congratulate cavemanlawyer and paperpills on their covers and everyone else who entered.
I was amazed at how many good covers turnt out for teh contest, and in all honesty expected alot more entries.

This contest gave me a good enough reason to do a cover that Ive wanted to do for ages, so I set about it and I was really please with teh results.

As promised here is a "making of" preview as it was quite a task getting it to look the way I wanted.

Hope you enjoy it!

















Hope you have enjoyed seeing how this was put together! It may not be too obvious from looking at the cover but there was alot of work involved in shadows, textures, and gradients, to give the overall "polished" look to the final product. I basically wanted it to look as though it could have been a single picture and not obvious that it was pieced together.

Well im happy, and coming runner up in the contest is a nice reward for a cover I was going to do anyway!

See you around with some new stuff soon, perhaps I might even get round to making some progress with my Johnny Depp collection!

Thanks!

[deboer69]

Nice little insight there Shorn. And some clever work! You can see the effort you put in to making the cover, by the end result. While people that just download covers may not appreciate it, cover makers will know how difficult it is to get shading and texture to lok right.

Great job!

Damn! The tutorial is just as amazing as the cover

[covermee]

That was one of the best reads from this site! I was amazed (as always from you) by the cover, and now even more by the tutorial! Great cover, and this just shows your talents! Thanks for the read!

Originally Posted by bazzah

Nice little insight there Shorn. And some clever work! You can see the effort you put in to making the cover, by the end result. While people that just download covers may not appreciate it, cover makers will know how difficult it is to get shading and texture to lok right.

Great job!

Exactly. Most don't consider how much work goes into it(and just d/l and pass them around like a cheap whore), but there are those that do and we love the results.

Excellent work.

FANTASTIC WORK SHORN! OUTSTANDING!

i agree, FANTASTIC work Shorn, one of my all favorites, congrats!!

Good Work Fella

[techman55]

I loved the cover, but that tutorial certainly makes me appreciate it all the more! And for a beginner designer like me, it shows different methods and ideas that can go into making covers. Great work!

Wow, reading that tutorial was pretty amazing!