RobertoOrtiz
01-11-2007, 12:51 PM
BOOK COVER "Steven Kings: Salems Lot"
You have been commisioned to do a book cover based on
Steven Kings ’Salem's Lot:
AMAZON.COM (http://www.amazon.com/Salems-Lot-Stephen-King/dp/0671039741/sr=8-1/qid=1168523427/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-0241059-9655846?ie=UTF8&s=books) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salems_lot
Ben Mears, a successful writer who grew up in the (fictional) town of Jerusalem’s Lot, Cumberland County, Maine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_County%2C_Maine) (or “The Lot”, as the locals call it), has returned home following the death of his wife. Ben plans to write a book about the “Marsten house”, an abandoned mansion that gave him nightmares after a bad experience with it as a child. Once in town he meets local high school teacher Matt Burke and strikes up a romantic relationship with Susan Norton, a young college graduate.
Mears discovers that the Marsten house has been bought by Mr. Straker and Mr. Barlow, a pair of businessmen who are also new to the town, although only Straker has yet been seen. Their arrival coincides with the disappearance of a young boy, Ralphie Glick, and the suspicious death of his brother Danny. Over the course of the book, the town is slowly taken over by vampires (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire), reducing it to a ghost town (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_town) by day as they sleep. Ben, Matt, Susan, and a few other residents of the Lot try to prevent this from happening. In the end Ben and young Mark Petrie succeed in killing Straker and destroying the master vampire Barlow, but, lucky to escape with their lives, are forced to leave the town to the crop of newly-created vampires. An epilogue has the two returning to the town a year later, intending to renew the battle, but allusions in King’s later writings leave it an open question as to just how successful they are.
’Salem’s Lot is a combination of psychological thriller and the classic horror genre, making references to Bram Stoker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker)'s Dracula (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula) at several points and sometimes replicating its storyline.
These are the rules:
You have NO TIME LIMIT for your sketch. IF you go beyond the assigned time limit , you have to post WHATEVER you have done after the time has expired, along with the FINAL drawing.
Post only your FINAL piece on this thread, based on the topic on the thread.
Only final pieces can be posted on the thread. They must have been done AFTER the topic has been announced.
RESOLUTION : The image can have any aspect ratio up to 800 x 600
They can be done on any medium.
If you wish, you can add a brief text description about your piece.
Only original compositions. No "tributes" or plagiarizing, unless is it an integral part of the challenge.
You can post an entry at anytime for the topic presented on this thead BEFORE the voting thread for THE WEEK has been posted.
The artist also has to post total length of time it took and program used.
Any piece caught breaking the rules will be taken off the thread.
The topics will be picked at random from the list on the TOPICS thread >>LINK<< (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php/?t=145003)
(The author will be given credit). So guys keep them coming.
You can add multiple entries, but please dont post WIP (Unless you intend to update them).
Good Luck
You have been commisioned to do a book cover based on
Steven Kings ’Salem's Lot:
AMAZON.COM (http://www.amazon.com/Salems-Lot-Stephen-King/dp/0671039741/sr=8-1/qid=1168523427/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-0241059-9655846?ie=UTF8&s=books) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salems_lot
Ben Mears, a successful writer who grew up in the (fictional) town of Jerusalem’s Lot, Cumberland County, Maine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_County%2C_Maine) (or “The Lot”, as the locals call it), has returned home following the death of his wife. Ben plans to write a book about the “Marsten house”, an abandoned mansion that gave him nightmares after a bad experience with it as a child. Once in town he meets local high school teacher Matt Burke and strikes up a romantic relationship with Susan Norton, a young college graduate.
Mears discovers that the Marsten house has been bought by Mr. Straker and Mr. Barlow, a pair of businessmen who are also new to the town, although only Straker has yet been seen. Their arrival coincides with the disappearance of a young boy, Ralphie Glick, and the suspicious death of his brother Danny. Over the course of the book, the town is slowly taken over by vampires (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire), reducing it to a ghost town (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_town) by day as they sleep. Ben, Matt, Susan, and a few other residents of the Lot try to prevent this from happening. In the end Ben and young Mark Petrie succeed in killing Straker and destroying the master vampire Barlow, but, lucky to escape with their lives, are forced to leave the town to the crop of newly-created vampires. An epilogue has the two returning to the town a year later, intending to renew the battle, but allusions in King’s later writings leave it an open question as to just how successful they are.
’Salem’s Lot is a combination of psychological thriller and the classic horror genre, making references to Bram Stoker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker)'s Dracula (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula) at several points and sometimes replicating its storyline.
These are the rules:
You have NO TIME LIMIT for your sketch. IF you go beyond the assigned time limit , you have to post WHATEVER you have done after the time has expired, along with the FINAL drawing.
Post only your FINAL piece on this thread, based on the topic on the thread.
Only final pieces can be posted on the thread. They must have been done AFTER the topic has been announced.
RESOLUTION : The image can have any aspect ratio up to 800 x 600
They can be done on any medium.
If you wish, you can add a brief text description about your piece.
Only original compositions. No "tributes" or plagiarizing, unless is it an integral part of the challenge.
You can post an entry at anytime for the topic presented on this thead BEFORE the voting thread for THE WEEK has been posted.
The artist also has to post total length of time it took and program used.
Any piece caught breaking the rules will be taken off the thread.
The topics will be picked at random from the list on the TOPICS thread >>LINK<< (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php/?t=145003)
(The author will be given credit). So guys keep them coming.
You can add multiple entries, but please dont post WIP (Unless you intend to update them).
Good Luck