Let's have some fun - If your cover was done in stick figures.

[T.L. Haddix]

Okay, all arguments as to the appropriateness of the thread I won't mention aside, I think Julie has hit upon something brilliant and something completely fun. Let's all do stick figure drawings of what our book covers would look like if, in fact, we had stick figure covers. I know this won't approach the comedic, terrifying brilliance of the David thread, and he-who-shall-not-be-named Zardoz won't be on here, but hey. Doesn't this sound like fun?

Now, if I can figure out how to a. draw my cover, and b. upload my cover, we'll be set! Maybe someone else can figure it out and let those of us who are technologically ignorant know.

[telracs]

why can't Zardoz be on here? i think a stick figure sean connery in a red diaper would be cool....

[Millard]

If?!

[Guardian]

Here you go. Crystal Shade stick figure art. It was one of the first marketing materials, as one of the early arts of the main character, but it would look good as a stick figure cover as well.

[KayBratt]

You guys are much too talented for me to compete. I'm out.

[JRTomlin]

I'm too technically impaired to draw stick figures. 

[George Berger]

I'm too technically impaired to draw stick figures. 

I actually just spent about fifteen minutes with a ruler drawing two proportionately-correct stick figures, which I think kind of defeats the purpose...

[JodyWallace]

I'm not really up to this challenge. I'm going to enlist a REAL stick artist. Who is 5. She works for chocolate milk, too.

[T.L. Haddix]

I'm not really up to this challenge. I'm going to enlist a REAL stick artist. Who is 5. She works for chocolate milk, too.

Hmmm.... *looks at the cats*

Jody, you may be on to something there.

[Bards and Sages (Julie)]

Oh come on, people!  Give me stick figures! Or I will be forced to create more of my own art.

NOBODY WANTS THAT!

[telracs]

I'm not really up to this challenge. I'm going to enlist a REAL stick artist. Who is 5. She works for chocolate milk, too.

does she do finger painting also?

[Pamela]

This is fun.  Love to play with art.

[Ben White]

This was actually really fun

[Andrew Warwick]

Stick figures work fine for Rich Burlew's Order of the Stick

[T.L. Haddix]

Disclaimer - this cover was not created by, is not endorsed by, and will not be supported by Streetlight Graphics. (If I didn't put that in here, Glendon would shoot me. Or make me sleep on the couch or something.)



This is so much more evocative than the current cover, don't you think?

[JodyWallace]

Especially proud of the lettering on here:



Now she wants to do my whole backlist. Hm.

[telracs]

Now she wants to do my whole backlist. Hm.

give her some chocolate and some blocks to play with and she'll forget all about it....

[John Dax]

Hmmm, okay I'm game.



Didn't say I was any good at the game.

[KirbyTails]

Posted two of them on my blog. But they're not actually composed of stick figures...just MS Paint Representations.

http://predictedhindsight.blogspot.com/2012/02/family-history-book-covers-done-in-ms.html

[TexasGirl]

I will play.

[KirbyTails]

Honestly, some of these aren't bad.

[T.L. Haddix]

Honestly, some of these aren't bad.

*grin* I know, aren't I brilliant?

Don't answer that. 

[kea]

Fun thread! So here is the actual stick-figure idea for my cover that I sent to the artist. Looking at the before and after, she's rather a miracle worker! And, I... well, I am so not an artist!

[Lexi Revellian]

I love this thread. Here are mine:



Remix is nearly the same...

Lexi

[MrPLD]

Here's mine... via the WACOM ... you can see I need practice.