This is a Rough design for Catherine Okada's vinyl cover for her single 'nightbus'- alterations to be made.
Ferbin and Holse approach the D'Neng-Oal Tower on caudeback.
The Machine
The final images for my third year final project, intended to book-end the main story of Matter by Iain M. Banks.
Wish me luck, I'll be handing this in tomorrow.
With thanks to Ellie, for being very patient while I waffle on about aliens and composition, and for helping with the strenuous task of tearing paper in two.
and also, of course, Iain M. Banks, for writing such good books with plenty of imaginative visual material in the first place.
claim descent Involucra; control (most) travel within Towers of Sursamen and many other Shellworlds; octal Waterworlders; LLI
For my final project at uni. For the appendix of my fictional ‘Illustrated Edition’ of Matter, by Iain M. Banks. Here's some shite cameraphone pictures, taken today just after the books were finally printed and completed!
Not affiliated to Banks or his publisher.
"Three hundred million space factories of half a million tonnes or more each sounded like a lot, but, spread out around an entire gas giant from within a few hundred kilometres of Razhir’s cloud tops to over half a million kilometres distant from the planet, in a band forty thousand kilometres thick, it was amazing how empty the space around the planet could seem."
- Surface Detail, Iain M. Banks
The final back-cover image for the speculative book cover project, illustrating for the jackets of all of the main Culture novels.
Not affiliated to Iain Banks, or his publisher, Orbit.
The speculative front cover for Iain M. Banks latest book, Surface Detail.
From the blurb:
"It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture.
It begins in the realm of the Real. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself."
Again, this is a speculative university project. This work is not associated to Iain Banks or his publisher.
Front cover for Use of Weapons, one of the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks for my final projects, illustrating most of the Culture novels as speculative book covers.
Culture "Plate" class General Systems Vehicle Sleeper Service (previously Quietly Confident)
For the spines of the speculative book cover project. A full set of the covers reveals the image of the ship.
A hollowed iron-nickel asteroid used as a store for Culture weaponry.
For the back cover of Excession, for the speculative book cover project, illustrating the covers for all 7 Culture novels.
I'm hoping this one is clear. Its supposed to represent the curved surface of a Culture 'Orbital' (think of the Rings from Halo), bathed in the light from a dying star.
Its from the ongoing major project at uni illustrating the covers for the Iain M. Banks 'Culture' novels.
For the back cover of Iain M. Banks' Look to Windward as part of my Major Project.
Major Quilan shares his senses with the consciousness of an old General, Huyler, whose soul is stored in his Soulkeeper device.
The finished book of the Means of Production project. This is 15 weeks of work, my minor project, so I hope you enjoy it!
Comments are welcome below, as always.
Wage slaves wait for their pittance.
From the ongoing project based on the Means of Production.
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