ok so i need to decide on some ideas for the author picture on the book. here are some so far. im trying to work on colors and different looks to have several variations to get the best one, but here are a few

ok so here are some book covers i have been trying to avoid, i forgot to post them but here they are. they are really busy and bright, or most of the time they are just very comic book looking

barcoded face!!!!

this is pretty close to what im trying to do for the barcode face. now i need to do it myself

so I here is the philip k dick image I am going to work on for the book cover project. also i really have been trying to get the bending over the face lines trick to work in photo shop, but things have finally come to me being forced to draw it. any advice someone could hand me would be awesome