The Twin Dilemma

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

Twin Dilemma – picture request

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

Enlightenment

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

Back in the saddle

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

Terminus

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

Mawdryn Undead

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

Remembrance of the Daleks

Thanks to reader James Lyons, I was unexpectedly able to finish my Remembrance of the Daleks re-release cover this weekend after all. He very kindly took the initiative and the time to take a grab from the DVD’s photo gallery of the shot of the Doctor I needed and sent it to me. As this was the last element I was waiting for, I took a break from Mawdryn Undead to complete Remembrance. Click the thumbnail left or here to go to Velvet Jacket and download.

I’ll add an update on the main site tonight with some comparisons between the new and old Remembrance covers. My illustration for Mawdryn is done too, so I’ll try to finish that cover and upload it too.

Cheers
JC

The War Games

My cover for The War Games is now available to download from Velvet Jacket.

Read about its creation here – and how I learned that trying to cut corners really is a false economy, and if you want your art to look as good as you can make it, you really do have to put in the work!

Hoping to move swiftly on to the Black Guardian trilogy, although I may slip my updated Remembrance cover in first as I don’t anticipate that being a big job (famous last words).

Cheers
JC

Delta and the Bannermen

At last, here’s my cover for Delta and the Bannermen! Click the thumbnail to download. Dunno if you’ll think it worth the wait – this really is one of my all-time turkeys, I’m afraid, and I just don’t connect with the story at all, making it tricky to get the right vibe for a cover. So I kept it fairly simple in the end.

Ploughing on with The War Games now, although picture sources aren’t extensive. Can’t decide whether to resist going with a triangular ‘map’ background/framework cos every else uses it or not…

Cheers, JC

Getting back on track

Home and work life have been restricting – well, eliminating – my time for working on covers. However, things are quieting down now and I’ll dedicate some time to catching up on the backlog – Delta and War Games are both on the drawing board. And I will be refreshing my Remembrance of the Daleks cover for the newly released version.

Cheers
JC