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Sheepshagger
This image was created in Paint Shop Pro 8 in response to a Challenge on Renderosity to create a cover for a paperback book of your own choice. This was my entry, based on my favourite of the novels I had read last year. First two apologies: (a) to those sensitive souls among you who may be offended bu the title (the author's choice, not mine!) and secondly to the author Niall Griffiths for making his extremely powerful novel look like a work of pulp fiction, which it most certainly is not. The background began life as an original mountainous landscape created using Terragen. This was then subjected to a barrage of filters in PSP 8 to creat the abstract background you now see, still vaguely suggestive of the Welsh mountains, but now reduced to the monotone flesh/blood colour scheme I though appropriate for a fairly lurid paperback cover (sorry Niall, see notes above). The foreground depicts one of the numerous acts of extreme violence described in horrifying detail in this potent and almost Blakean vision of disenfranchised youth. Although my entry was unplaced in the challenge, I thought it was sufficiently interesting to be included here as my only example of this kind of simplified graphic design to date.