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Prisoner of Ironsea Tower - back cover
Prisoner of Ironsea Tower.
Back cover illustration.
These images for the back covers of books are always essentially well-decorated emptiness... There is usually so much copy to go on for different editions - hardcover, trade paperback, mass market paperback - that it is virtually impossible to actually do a picture that will accommodate every requirement.
Personally I HATE illustrations that just sort of waffle off into a soup of colour, a sort of extended but polychrome nothingless that is only there to be filled by text. No only does it compromise still further an already compromised piece of illustrating, but it is simultaneously just too slick and thoughtless to even be considered as an option...
(Boy, did that ever get me riled, eh?)
Conclusion: remember the anecdote about Dante Gabriel Rosetti, when he complained to his woodblock supplier that the blocks were a quarter of an inch shorter than he had ordered and the supplier replied: "What's all the fuss about a mere quarter of an inch?"
Rosetti retorted: "What do you mean ONLY a quarter of an inch!? I can put a whole CITY in a quarter of an inch!"
So, no matter how much copy is destined to stake its claim over top of a picture, even a quarter inch is enough to express yourself... and all the rest is not to be ignored either.
The Tears of Artamon Book Two: The Prisoner of Ironsea Tower
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