I went to Waterstones recently and saw the nature of the illustrated book covers they have - there is now more elaborate illustration on book covers than I remember being a while ago. I particularly like the design for 'The Bees' (the hexagons are shiny in person) and 'The 100 year old man..." for its ambition in consuming the whole cover in illustraton.
I re-read A Clockwork Orange and did some thumb nailing. I was really into the idea of making a design that showed Alex and his three droogs. I feel like the movie version's iconic nature makes this an incredibly difficult task, but I produced silhouettes based on the description given in the book and the weapons they are said to hold.
Anyway, after I thought they didn't have much power in themselves, I remembered Owen Freeman did some cool designs for William Burroughs' books. And this was when I realized that I didn't have to make a purely symbolic cover, but one more representational. I quickly thumb nailed the scene where Alex is strapped to the chair with his eyes peeled open and began to develop the image
I like where it could go if refined. It's pretty scary, which I think is appropriate since the book can be intensely disturbing at times.
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