Artist Inspirations

I've been busy getting settled in North Carolina. I will post more cover images soon. Meantime, here's a link to a site that collected the original reference sources that the artists used when designing covers. Fumetti artists rarely had time to hire and pose models so they would refer to magazines for model poses. Sometimes the publisher would hand them a magazine cover or movie poster and ask the artist to essentially replicate it with only a few minor changes. A lot of the covers referenced on this page are by lesser artists but learning about their sources is an interesting exploration. ​http://www.elvifrance.fr/images/couvertures/sourcescouv.htm