David Cantero: Fallen Angels

[reviews_and_ramblings]

I think it's quite obvious why I chose this week artist... go New Hampshire, and let the love spread ;-)

David Cantero Berenguer was born the 29 December 1972 in Spain, studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Liège, Belgium (comic strips and illustration were his main studies), and works for Renault and Zara fashion.



















Illustrator, editor of Cantero editorial and since march 2008, art director of the cartoon animation studio The Picture Factory in Luxemburgo.

Bruno Gmunder released Cantero's Club Life in October 2008: David Cantero illustrates flyers, invitations and party posters for clubs and bars all over the world. His artworks are impressions of real life, colorful and vivid.

http://www.amazon.com/Club-Life-David-Cantero/dp/3867870136/

http://www.davidcantero.com/

More Artists at my website: http://www.elisarolle.com/, My Ramblings/Art

Comments

[angelabenedetti.livejournal.com]

I love that first pic. It's slightly anime-ish, but not too much. I'd love to have that as a book cover, but I doubt I could ever afford him. Pity. :)

Angie

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

David Cantero did a lot of advertisement work in Europe, flyers and similar. Even for small clients, so I don't know, maybe his rates are not so high. Elisa

[angelabenedetti.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling he charges more than what an e-book publisher offers for a piece of cover art. Which isn't to say he's not worth more, just that I'm pretty sure my publisher would laugh uproariously if I said I wanted them to get me a piece of Cantero art for a book cover. [wry smile]

It'd be interesting to find a rate card or something, just out of curiosity, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Pity, because he's really excellent.

Angie

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

There is no rate card on the website... I don't know if I said to you or another author, but sometime illustrators sell the right for an image one-shot, meaning that the image property is still of the illustrator who allows a single use of it. This is the reason why some romance covers are used more than one time. Maybe in this case the rate is lower. Elisa

[angelabenedetti.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely. [nodnod] If you want to buy a piece of art completely, to own the original and all rights to copy in any form or medium, that's freaking expensive. And so it should be.

I've never asked my publisher what they pay for cover art, but I saw a discussion somewhere else online recently where someone who's done cover art says that the going rate for an e-book cover is about $50. That's why so many e-book covers are amateurish or ugly or both, and why some publishers (such as my own) use line covers for the shorter and cheaper books, rather than giving each short story or whatever its own individual cover. They just can't make the money back on the cost of a unique cover, even paying what's actually a pittance to an artist. I approve, actually; I'd probably sell a lot fewer short stories if they cost an extra fifty cents or dollar each, to pay for the cover art.

Angie

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Yes, I believe that a standard rate for some illustrators are some hundred dollars rather than less than one hundred. But for a print book it's worth the cost. For an ebook, I agree with you, it's not worth, better a (good) standard image. Elisa

[lilygcs.livejournal.com]

I agree, it would be an awesome cover!!

Lily

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Actually it's rather simple but very effective. Elisa

[lilygcs.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing these illustrations. What a talented man, wow.

I love the first one, their hands entwined with the rings. Very nice!!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

If I remember well he did that paint when Spain recognized gay marriage (legal partnership) some years ago. So it was right for today. Elisa

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

Great choice to honor yesterday's vote!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I immediately had that image in mind and search for it ;-) Elisa