new book cover ideas

book covers © 2011 snow*cinder
-i did not write the book or claim ownership over it

babushka dream FINISHED!

it hurts my eyes
and i don't want to look at it anymore x_x
but i prefer it cropped haha despite all that hard work...
it took maybe...three...four days

babushka dream WIP

 Inspired by one of my friends! :D i consider this a collaboration between my friends and i (i'll be sure to include their names in my book)

but they're giving me some really good imagery to work with-keep poppin out those dreams people!

old digital illustration stuff

part of my final--wasn't quite happy with the finished product
but I want to continue working on it maybe for portfolio or to sell

big update

 these are two of the ideas I had for the book cover of memoirs of a geisha but they didn't follow the rules that my instructor put down
anyhow, i had fun drawing these two :)

 this is just a study done in drawing for illustration-hi tech Pilot pens are the best for this type of line work (because they skip)

 another illustration for the drawing for illustration class
i worked on this for a long time and was beginning to hate it
-_- ahh i dunno maybe its the terrible job i did on the fence that bothers me and the obvious mess up i made in the left corner- i black massed this small gate thing hoping to make it a nice silhouette but it was awful so i put gesso over is -_- ahh worst mistake ever...
i cropped it down to maybe 70% of the actual picture
i liked this idea but ugh i need to work on my execution...

haha my instructor actually liked this one
and my mom didn't like it much so i thought i would get a bad crit out of this @_@ i was completely wrong...

anyhow, this was inspired by a creepy moment during the time i was taking a short nap

so i was knocked out and was napping during the daytime-i was planning to sleep for maybe just 30 minutes--so i enter rem sleep where your body is completely relaxed and kind of...paralyzed? So i'm not sure that i woke up during this time or if it was a dream but i couldn't move my body. on the very top of my head, someone was making a circle with finger repeatedly. It was almost as if my head was shaved completely and i could hear the sound of the fingernail dragging on top of my head except it was amplified and was the only thing i could hear. at that moment i wasn't scared at all...in fact whenever i have nightmares, i'm sometimes very calm when something terrible is happening. it's only when i wake up that it creeps the hell out of me.