Category: In Progress.
Coming soon (probably next year) is the first issue of Starling, featuring yours truly.
Starling is a new series of art books edited by pal Ashley Wood and will be published by IDW Publishing.
Starling is part of the Swallow and Sparrow series of art books and magazines that Ashley and IDW have been putting out for a couple of years (you should check those out!). Where the former are more geared towards art & illustration, Starling will be focusing more on design and other related creative fields, and Ash asked me to kick off the series.
More news and announcements on this once the book will go in production.
St Cyborgs cover WIP, originally uploaded by helloMuller.
Cover design-in-progress for St. Cyborgs, an upcoming SF novel for Mam Tor™ Publishing
Its 11.30PM now, and by now I should be in bed reading. Instead, I’m staring at my screen looking at the painfully slow progress bar in After Effects as I’m making a draft render of an animated sequence I’m submitting for an upcoming gallery exhibit in London and Berlin (no I can’t say what it is, because I don’t even know if my work will be accepted).
I started way too late on this thing… it has been a while since I’ve done any animation/After Effects work. I ended up reworking a concept that I started work on in 2003 for another animation project that never saw the light of day. I had done all the prelims, but somehow the whole project died a quiet death. So now this thing comes along and its the perfect excuse to dust off After Effects, revist the idea and do it properly this time…
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Been working on this for a while now, the cover for Liam’s Machivarious Point novel (for Mam Tor™ Publishing), and I can’t seem to crack it.
I’ve tried a number of approaches combining the art he sent and adding design and type to it… trying all sorts of devices.
It doesn’t help that its a combination of fantasy and SF, so I feel I have to reflect both elements in the cover.
Anyway - I’ve been butchering the art in Photoshop and I think I’ve found an interesting angle to it all.
Almost done with the cover design for the 2nd book of 24SEVEN edited by Ivan (NYC Mech, The Cross Bronx) Brandon with a cover by Ashley Wood published by Image Comics!
I did a truckload of logo designs until making a 180º turn and going for the “Robo Clock”.
Still working on the cover… The first draft of the type treatment didn’t work… most people I showed it to couldn’t read it and everything was wonky… So I straightened everything out… now having fun in Illustrator.
I’m currently working on the covers for 2 new novels for Mam Tor™ Publishing – Machivarious Point and St. Cyborg – the first a collection of fantasy tales (think Michael Moorcock meets Conan), the latter an SF novel.
The image above is the Machivarious Point masthead/book logo in progress…
2 years ago I wrote and designed a short SF story “Oneironaut“, which was published in the first issue of Mam Tor: Event Horizon™, and ever since I’ve been toying with the idea of expanding the 8 page sequence to a “proper” graphic novel, or novella.
Continue reading…
First draft of a promo poster for Matt Coyle’s Worry Doll for the upcoming Bristol Comic Expo. Need to get more press quotes in…