warlike / thriller


 
Cover for the UK edition of the novel entitled "Force 10 from Navarone" by Alastair MacLean. Many of the book covers in this web were made for books by the same author.

 
 
One of more interesting elements in the illustrator's work is finding the most suggestive way to approach a subject. I have always liked the mystery topics, and so this order delighted me from the beginning.
     
 
In this cover I took special care with lights and perspective. The anecdote is that for the kidnapped figure I used myself as a model.

 

 
 
     
 
Work under commission for a magazine, illustrating a real fact and painted with Indian inks and gouache. I tried to imagine the tremendous crushing blow between both tankers, with masses of four hundred thousand tons, that dragged and cracked the other ship.
 
 
     
 
 
 
Illustration made with Indian inks for the book entitled "Universal history of weapons" that I also wrote. A bit of gouache was applied in the flesh of the Mata-Hari figure, so that the dryness of scraping looked softened.
     
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