Wow, already 27 downloads since last night – you guys are quick! However, John Doherty kindly pointed out a small typo on the back cover, so I’ve corrected this and uploaded a new Zip file.
Cheers
JC
Hi all, more delays but here’s my cover for Planet of the Daleks. Took a little while to get this to hang together right – as you can read about here – and as a result it’s not one of my favourites, but I hope you think it’s ok.
Feeling the pressure a bit with all the boxsets and double-packs either already out or imminent – more Pertwee with the two Peladon stories, then after Masque of Mandragora there’s Space Museum and The Chase, then the Myths & Legends box. Why do they overload the start of the year so much? So I’m afraid you shouldn’t expect covers to appear too soon after release as sadly I’m already playing catch-up this year. But I will plug away at them when I can – rest assured, there’ll be Velvet Jacket covers for every release…eventually!
Cheers
JC
My cover for Frontier in Space is now available to download – click here on on the thumbnail.
Took a little longer to get it finished than anticipated – blame Super Mario Kart Wii for hogging my attention over Christmas! I’ve got the composition for Planet of the Daleks in my head but it involves cutting out lots of Daleks (thankfully not 10,000) so we’ll have to see how my patience bears up, but I would like to get it completed before my Peladon boxset arrives.
Cheers
JC
My cover for The Keys of Marinus is now available to download from Velvet Jacket. I’ll get some notes about its creation up shortly – in fact, here they are.
Some time off work has allowed me to catch up with the release schedule with the last three covers, but it’s back to the grindstone tomorrow so I probably won’t get Frontier and Planet completed until the Christmas break. Low on ideas for the former at the moment anyway, but I do aim to have them finished before the end of the year so I can push on with the Peladon covers in January, as it looks like being another year of relentless releases. Good to get the DVDs but hard work to keep the covers up to date. I feel for Clayton!
As ever, any thought or comments, do post them here or drop me an email.
Cheers
JC
Thanks to those who helped with with the screengrabs I was after – here’s my completed cover for The Twin Dilemma. Click here or on the thumbnail to download, and here to read about its creation. Love to know what you all think.
As this is the last of the Sixth Doctor covers – the first complete ‘era’ (unless you count the Eighth Doctor’s sole showing as an era) – I thought I’d show you the clean artwork for them all at a clearer size than the website gallery. Click on the image below for a much bigger version.
Cheers
JC
Thanks to all who sent in images, you’ve been a big help. The finished cover should be up later this weekend.
My Twin Dilemma cover is coming along nicely, but I wonder if someone could do me a favour and take some screengrabs from the DVD’s photo gallery for me (haven’t got the disc myself yet). The two shots I need are below. I found them on the wonderful Tragical History Tour but they’re too small – grabbed, I’d guess, at actual pixel size. Could someone take grabs for me at full screen size – doesn’t matter if they’re magnified and a bit fuzzy, just as big as possible (so the bigger your screen the better)?
Email them to jc_joe_cannon@yahoo.co.uk
Many thanks
JC
After something of a delay (see ‘Back in the saddle’ below) here at last is my cover for Enlightenment, finishing off the Black Guardian trilogy boxset. Read about its creation here and do please leave a comment with your thoughts – they’re always useful to hear.
I have some time off work so I hope to get on with further covers straight away, starting (probably) with The Twin Dilemma. I do hope to get up to date with the Dalek War boxset before the New Year but recent experience has made me wary of promising too much. Still, new Mac is gorgeous so any excuse to use it is welcome!
Cheers
JC
Sorry to all those waiting for new covers, particularly the last instalment of the Black Guardian trilogy. I’ve had a busy, stressful month, most pertinently involving my computer playing up, so I’ve been offline for a while. Annoyingly it managed to crash while I had parts of the Enlightenment cover open and corrupted the files, meaning I’ll have to do a load of work again.
However, I have now availed myself of a shiny new Mac and finally transferred all my old data. So I can get back on the cover wagon and hope to have Enlightenment finished this weekend, followed by The Keys of Marinus, The Twin Dilemma, Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks before the new year.
Thanks for your patience.
Cheers
JC
A productive weekend and so here is my cover for Terminus. Click here or on the thumbnail to go to Velvet Jacket to download. And click here for some background to its creation. As ever, I’d welcome any thoughts or suggestions you might have for this or any of my covers. Do leave a comment.
Ploughing straight on with Enlightenment, and then The Twin Dilemma. As for The Keys of Marinus, I haven’t dug through my archive of photos yet, but from memory most images I’ve seen are of Arbitan and the Voord, so I’ll probably wait until I have the disc and can see if the photo gallery unearths any unseen gems before deciding on the illustration for that cover.
Cheers
JC
Nearly as promised – just needed an extra evening to fine-tune the illustration and finish off the back cover – here’s my cover for Mawdryn Undead. Click on the thumbnail or here to go to Velvet Jacket and download, or here to read about its creation. Please do leave your comments – it’s always useful to know what others think for future covers.
Terminus and Enlightenment are both sketched out, so I hope to plough on with those this week.
Cheers
JC
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