"Old Man's War" - Book Cover

"Old Man's War" - Book Cover
Personal Work

Book cover illustration of "Old Man's War", by John Scalzi.

THE PROJECT

The cover concept is an old man looking at a pro-call-up imperialist military propaganda and having the book's title used as a derogatory term in a protest graffiti.

Illustration: Pedro Poppi
Art direction: Aline Akemi

The lettering work had to look real, or the project as a whole wouldn't work.
The final work is a mixture of photographs with digital brushes, to give the correct effects of large brushstrokes and done very quickly, for being a graffiti in a sanitized society.