The Black Library has lately gone into a frenzy of publication and I thought it might be worthwhile to have a thread where we can look at the latest Black Library covers and give our thoughts.

Emperor's Mercy by H. Zou (new Aussie Author). Cover Image. August 09

Dawn of War II by Chris Roberson (another new author). Cover Image. March 09

Heroes of the Space Marines anthology. Cover Image. July 09

Ravenor Omnibus cover. August 09

Grey Knights Omnibus Cover, May '09

Courage and Honour, 4th UM book by McNeill. Cover Image. June 09

Fallen Angels by Mike Lee, Descent of Angels sequel. Cover Image. July 09

Tales of Heresy, HH anthology, Cover Image, April 09

Hellforged, next Soul Drinkers book, Ben Counter, Image Cover, April '09

Innocence Proves Nothing, Sandy Mitchell, Cover Image, Feb 09

Salamander, Nick Kyme, Sep 2009. Cover.

And we also have a reprinting of the Inquisition War Trilogy, by Ian Watson, due in Feb '09. Cover Image.

Anyone that can provide higher-res pictures of the covers - that'd be great! I'm just posting these to try to start some discussion. :)

I've got this, from the Courage + Honour cover:



I also have these: The Salamander artwork by Wayne England:

Some exceptional artwork there. The Ravenor Omnibus cover is particularly striking.

For larger pictures select the `coming soon' option in the products menu and click on the title (on The Black Library website, um, obviously).

Edit: Damn my slow typing :P See above.

Good point - I might as well just post this. I'll also move the topic to general art discussion so then it can deal with 40k and WFB artwork. :)

Ooh, sparkly and fzzling foru..what have happened?!
Anyhoot, that coloured Wayne England cover I had not seen yet.. it looks GREAT

Well, here's another novel cover I saw recently and really liked; the cover to the forthcoming Dark Creed by Anthony Reynolds. I'm told the image was drawn (if not coloured?) by Klaus Scherwinski, but I'm on a terrible connection and can't confirm.

Anyway, on with the prettiness:

Thanks for posting all this wicked art here, Commissar Molotov!
Great source of inspiration...

Maybe you could try and get hold of the artist(s) and see if they want to give an interview, tutorial, or just say a few words about the artwork?
Just a thought :)

I'd love to, though I'm not sure how I'd go about it.

Mailing Black Library?
Or maybe some artists have homepages?

I found a piece of line-art for the Dark Creed cover:



I also found this, the cover of Sons of Dorn by Chris Roberson:



This cover is apparently done by Hardy Fowler.


In other news, I've emailed Klaus Scherwinski asking him if he'd be agreeable to an interview. Please check the appropriate thread in the news forum! :)

no images showing from the last entry :( it just sais "user posted images" :(

Apologies for that, I've been on awkward connections. I'll fix that momentarily!

thank you, great detail on that scout-image! I'm snagging that for my "refference" folder for Wh40k!

edit I
...and a quick look on the internets gave this link:

http://features.cgsociety.org/newgallerycr...38056_large.jpg

larger version of that scout! (no hotlinking the image as CGsociety might disapprove!)

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and some guardsmen! for a BL publicaion it sais...

http://features.cgsociety.org/newgallerycr...65792_large.jpg

Nice finds! This Hardy Fowler looks like someone to watch! I've found that the BL is a bit forthcoming with its artists than GW proper. I find a lot by watching the Black Library website.

I posted this elsewhere but it seems like it'd be good to put here; Klaus Scherwinski emailed me and sent me this A3 scan of his cover art for Dark Disciple. I hope you guys'll like it!

Linky-dink!

I love that Wayne England cover for Salamanders. But, really, you'd think Wayne of all people would know that there is no way in hell the muzzle effect of a plasma pistol would look anything like that. That's bolter muzzle flash!

Silly boy.

R.

Good finds. I do love that scout picture especially.