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Published: 2006-05-28 22:53:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 2989; Favourites: 36; Downloads: 84
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This pic was inspired by my friend , who has been doing book covers recently and has got me in the mood for them now! I've looked at Day of the Triffids firstly, one of my fave John Wyndham books (if you haven't read any of his work, I really do advise you to! Very bleak but interesting stuff).Instead of showing a scene with lots of Triffids terrorising some people, which I thought might be obvious, I wanted to show it in a gentler way, in amoungst other normal flowers, almost making it appear as if it's a normal plant. Obviously this one's only a baby, but I'm sure it could do some sort of damage...
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It's a great graphic composition... but your subjects remind me more of the spore spraying flowers in the Star Trek episode, "This Side of Paradise", than triffids.
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Very poisonous green...! Great silhouette work as ever. And yays for the Triffids! Fun, fun book, that.
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Yep, wanted it to be a nice intense green! I found the book so creepy, what a horrible situation to be in! 
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Always nice to meet another Triffid fan, and especially when they draw such awesome triffid designs! It's the colours that make this though - a menacing night-black and a green that's *too* green, kinda like the Triffids themselves, the sense that while they're a part of nature, they're also a ghastly mockery of it.
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Thankyou very much! It's sad - I know very few people that have actually read the book (they've all seen the film though
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I love John Wyndham, me, even if it is sad. Have you read much of his other stuff?
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Yes I have indeed! The Chrysalids, the Trouble with Lichen; I keep meaning to read the Midwich Cuckoos.
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great cover mate
much better than the cover that my copy has ><
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I really like this series of pics you've done recently.. This is a great example. Nice vibrant green set against black gives it a really spooky edge, and I like the idea that this is 'just a baby'
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Thanks very much, I only wish they were real book covers!
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pretty cool! i think i'll check out this john wyndham sometime
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Thanks! Yes please do - great writer!
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Am I mistaken, or is that the book with the killer stalks of celery?
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*Laughs* Well, something close to celery! The plant variation.
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loving the colours fistly! but the composition is fab and the type worls so well! well done you! 
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Hehe, cheers Emma! Can't go wrong with those colours.
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This is awesome! I love the colors you chose and the way you wrote the text.
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It's a great book - quite creepy but interesting. 
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You're welcome, I look forward to seeing more of your text.
Ah, there is an interesting but creepy book that I love, it's called The Langoliers and it's by Stephen King. It's really good. Have you read it?
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Ooooo, no I haven't read that one! I gave up on Stephen King after reading Pet Cemetary and Salem's Lot.
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LOL! I never read any of those, I'm not really into Stephen King, it was just by chance that I read this one. XD
Well, I'm horrible at summaries, but it's about these people who are on a plane to Boston. The plane actually goes through some type of time rift so the people end up in the lifeless world of a past timestream. And in the world there are these beasts, the langoliers, who are shaped like balls with no facial features or limbs. They only have a large mouth with teeth that let them eat anything.
That was probably a horrible summary, but I don't want to give anything away.
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Haha, omigod! "Feeeed me, Seymour!" Hehe, I honestly hadn't thought of that when I was doing this. Thanks Leon!
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I think dave has the film of this. Can't remember.
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The colours are great, really striking.
The composotion is really great as well.
I'd buy it!
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Aw thankyou very much for saying that! That's what I want to hear, lol!
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The use of black, green and white makes a great contrast against one another, sets the mood I think
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Truds, you think *everything* looks sinister, or 'creepy'. 
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This is really good, I really like the Triffid with its slightly humanoid appearance and stance, reminds me of a Final Fantasy enemy! A very striking image, nice text too. Excellent!
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A Final Fantasy enemy, like a Marlboro.
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Haha, yes, I was indeed thinking of a Marlboro, but I find them to be very annoying enemies, so was reluctant to suggest it! Nastiness, eh? I'll have to check that out...
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I hated those enemies; if I didn't have Ribbon, I was doomed.
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Now I want to read this book... sweet cover design and "Triffids" such a cool word XD You have a really good eye for design stuff like this!
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Read it, read it!
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AAAAH WOW!! I love it! Especially the colours and the white type, very typical of the kinda films it inspired! and the spores as well. Its a shame its so short though..tcha! You got there before me!
nah, bloody good.
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Hehe, thanks David! I was hoping you'd like this!
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oOOOoooo pretty!
Heh I never thought of doin' book covers, coolness
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Thankyou, Lady F!
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lol nah I haven't, I hardly read anything these days. Mostly because all the stuff I see... well isn't worth reading. I'm picky
What's it about anywho?
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Put it on your 'to read' list.
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Oh sounds freaky, but cool, I'll have to keep an eye open for it.
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