Cover art: Hand drawn vs. Computer imaging

i like both as long as it is done right, though i am a sucker for power metal covers they are so breathtaking

Smindas wrote:

troublezone wrote:

I like hand drawn. Anything else is lazy.

Digital art is just as effort consuming as hand drawn art, it's just a different medium, used to achieve a completely different effect.

Anyway, I like both mediums. There are some classic thrash albums with fantasticly painted covers (Ed Repka is great at what he does) which I'll always be in awe of. Of course, there are many a great digitally made cover. Rarely nowadays are you going to get anything that is hand-painted anyway, most of it will be edited and refined on imaging software, which of course isn't a bad thing. It's cool to mix the two mediums together.

Except for the fact that it's harder to fix a mistake with a hand drawn picture as opposed to hitting a delete button.

I prefer things done old school!

Whatever this counts as.

That's one of the worst covers ever.

hand drawn all the way
give me some high school art II class drawn stuff over cgi crap anyday

Cool coverart from David Cederløf. Awesome band to...