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Post by ljwilson on Sept 22, 2018 18:01:08 GMT
As we are doing Desert Island discs (etc) how about 5 BF covers that you love.
My phone won't let me cut and paste pictures so if any kind soul want's to do mine that would be great.
Dalek Empire 1.2 - The Human Factor
DW MR - Dust Breeding
DW MR - Night Thoughts
The Churchill Years - The Oncoming Storm
DW EA - The Bounty of Ceres
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2018 19:18:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2018 19:22:15 GMT
I see a pattern🤪
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Post by tuigirl on Sept 22, 2018 19:51:09 GMT
Hmmm... difficult. I really like the covers for the 8th Doctor box sets, Dark Eyes, Doom Coalition and Ravenous. Hard to pick any favorites but I have the cover for "Eye of Darkness" as background for my phone... And I really like the cover for "Time in Office". |
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Sept 22, 2018 23:11:19 GMT
Well the cover for the Vinyl edition of Spare Parts is definitely on my list.
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Post by number13 on Sept 23, 2018 0:11:57 GMT
Five favourites overall would be very hard to choose, but I've chosen five favourites from the recent golden period of MR covers, and an artist.
The MR covers of the last few years are generally outstanding for their richness of detail and colour, and of those Simon Holub's stand out the most for me. I don't want to sound all art-crtic-y (when I can't draw a straight line, let alone a picture!  ) but I think it's his use of contrast, light and shadow that does it for me.
His artwork has a virtually 3D quality and the light-beams and energy discharges seem to actually shine. I wish we could buy posters.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2018 1:20:22 GMT
Ditto to Simon Holub.  He's got a really nice sense of composition and contrast and I've got a soft spot for covers that try to partially reenact scenes from the stories they're based on:   Alex Mallinson's picture-in-a-figure for the first run of Lost Stories always catches my eye, particularly the retreaux flip cover that removes the sidebar and puts it front-and-centre:  Lee Binding's cover for Panacea is what made me look at Gallifrey in the first place:  And Clayton Hickman's Gallifreyan oriflammes (and flames) with the Daleks on one side, Romana on the other and the Doctor in the middle (I'd love to see an update of this one in a similar style to Holub's covers):  |
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Post by tuigirl on Sept 23, 2018 8:56:33 GMT
Five favourites overall would be very hard to choose, but I've chosen five favourites from the recent golden period of MR covers, and an artist.
The MR covers of the last few years are generally outstanding for their richness of detail and colour, and of those Simon Holub's stand out the most for me. I don't want to sound all art-crtic-y (when I can't draw a straight line, let alone a picture! ) but I think it's his use of contrast, light and shadow that does it for me.
His artwork has a virtually 3D quality and the light-beams and energy discharges seem to actually shine. I wish we could buy posters.
This is what brings me to the question- why is it that Big Finish is not selling the artworks? As posters, printed on T-shirts and so on? That would be a goldmine.
I know we get the art with the downloads and could have it printed ourselves...
Only thing I can think if is copyrights or similar. What a shame.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2018 8:58:40 GMT
Five favourites overall would be very hard to choose, but I've chosen five favourites from the recent golden period of MR covers, and an artist.
The MR covers of the last few years are generally outstanding for their richness of detail and colour, and of those Simon Holub's stand out the most for me. I don't want to sound all art-crtic-y (when I can't draw a straight line, let alone a picture! ) but I think it's his use of contrast, light and shadow that does it for me.
His artwork has a virtually 3D quality and the light-beams and energy discharges seem to actually shine. I wish we could buy posters.
This is what brings me to the question- why is it that Big Finish is not selling the artworks? As posters, printed on T-shirts and so on? That would be a goldmine.
I know we get the art with the downloads and could have it printed ourselves...
Only thing I can think if is copyrights or similar. What a shame.
Yes the artwork is really getting artistic lol..... It should be though by demand perhaps...here is a list of available prints...then printed to order so they do not lose out cost wise |
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Post by tuigirl on Sept 23, 2018 9:07:20 GMT
Yes the artwork is really getting artistic lol..... It should be though by demand perhaps...here is a list of available prints...then printed to order so they do not lose out cost wise Exactly! Like all those print on demand t-shirt companies.
I do not have much space, but I would make space for some of these amazing artworks. My place honestly cannot get any more geekier.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2018 9:12:22 GMT
Yes the artwork is really getting artistic lol..... It should be though by demand perhaps...here is a list of available prints...then printed to order so they do not lose out cost wise Exactly! Like all those print on demand t-shirt companies.
I do not have much space, but I would make space for some of these amazing artworks. My place honestly cannot get any more geekier.
I actually very very rarely have artwork t shirts my Doom one i got as it really took me back in time lol to my Atari Jaguar days. i tend to just prefer plain.My days of putting up posters are pretty much gone to.Lack of available wall space but there is a market out there especially at things like Comic Con |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2018 9:19:59 GMT
But they should stick to shirts, no underwear tea cosies,tea pots placemats,lampshades and other tat that the BBC did
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Post by ljwilson on Sept 23, 2018 10:06:36 GMT
Five favourites overall would be very hard to choose, but I've chosen five favourites from the recent golden period of MR covers, and an artist.
The MR covers of the last few years are generally outstanding for their richness of detail and colour, and of those Simon Holub's stand out the most for me. I don't want to sound all art-crtic-y (when I can't draw a straight line, let alone a picture! ) but I think it's his use of contrast, light and shadow that does it for me.
His artwork has a virtually 3D quality and the light-beams and energy discharges seem to actually shine. I wish we could buy posters.
This is what brings me to the question- why is it that Big Finish is not selling the artworks? As posters, printed on T-shirts and so on? That would be a goldmine.
I know we get the art with the downloads and could have it printed ourselves...
Only thing I can think if is copyrights or similar. What a shame.
BF need a seperate set of rights from the BBC that covers merchandise, they responded to me that it would be nice but alas probably not possible |
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Post by tuigirl on Sept 23, 2018 10:09:16 GMT
BF need a seperate set of rights from the BBC that covers merchandise, they responded to me that it would be nice but alas probably not possible Yeah, so it is as I thought. Shame. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2018 10:14:38 GMT
BF need a seperate set of rights from the BBC that covers merchandise, they responded to me that it would be nice but alas probably not possible Yeah, so it is as I thought. Shame. It’s a Public funded Corporation....am a member of the Public that funds them...i grant them the rights😂 |
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Post by tuigirl on Sept 23, 2018 10:34:01 GMT
It’s a Public funded Corporation....am a member of the Public that funds them...i grant them the rights😂 As so often with public funded institutions and governments ("people's republic") the actual say of the public won't show up very high on the agenda I am afraid...  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2018 11:43:12 GMT
It’s a Public funded Corporation....am a member of the Public that funds them...i grant them the rights😂 As so often with public funded institutions and governments ("people's republic") the actual say of the public won't show up very high on the agenda I am afraid... yup ain’t that the truth 🤯 |
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) but I think it's his use of contrast, light and shadow that does it for me.
He's got a really nice sense of composition and contrast and I've got a soft spot for covers that try to partially reenact scenes from the stories they're based on: