Dick Brucinson
The TRUE Dick Brucinson
I'm really curious about alternative album cover paintings. Are there any? If so: please post them here.
Album covers: alternate versions, different Eddies?
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The_7th_one
Ancient Mariner
MindRuler
Ancient Mariner
Very interesting read, thank you for sharing, @The_7th_one ! 
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
STUDIO ALBUMS:
Iron Maiden (1980) - 1998 remastered edition cover.
No Prayer For The Dying (1990) - 1998 remastered edition cover.
Fear Of The Dark (1992) - the unfinished album cover by Derek Riggs.
The X Factor (1995) - alternative album cover/the back cover.
Virtual XI (1998) - the original cover without the football pitch and orange is the dominant colour (not red).
Dance Of Death (2003) - the original unused album cover.
The Book Of Souls (2015) - The witch doctor, the heart and the jungle setting.
This comes from an interview with Mark Wilkinson:
''It looked very different to how it ended up because the original drawings that I did, Eddie had hair. I tried to imagine him as a witch doctor with typical 'Eddie' hair but making it even more crazy! Rod really liked the Eddie but said to get rid of the hair and the face markings that I put on him. I think Rod maybe thought they were a bit too 'Maori'. He wanted a more 'voodoo' look, so it was a constantly evolving process.
The sort of 'jungle' feel as well. Going on to a sacrifice to the sun with the heart''.
Senjutsu (2021) - alternative cover/the back cover.
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In the original sketch for Piece Of Mind, Eddie was on his knees.
In the original sketch for Somewhere In Time, Eddie was with hair.
Iron Maiden (1980) - 1998 remastered edition cover.
No Prayer For The Dying (1990) - 1998 remastered edition cover.
Fear Of The Dark (1992) - the unfinished album cover by Derek Riggs.
The X Factor (1995) - alternative album cover/the back cover.
Virtual XI (1998) - the original cover without the football pitch and orange is the dominant colour (not red).
Dance Of Death (2003) - the original unused album cover.
The Book Of Souls (2015) - The witch doctor, the heart and the jungle setting.
This comes from an interview with Mark Wilkinson:
''It looked very different to how it ended up because the original drawings that I did, Eddie had hair. I tried to imagine him as a witch doctor with typical 'Eddie' hair but making it even more crazy! Rod really liked the Eddie but said to get rid of the hair and the face markings that I put on him. I think Rod maybe thought they were a bit too 'Maori'. He wanted a more 'voodoo' look, so it was a constantly evolving process.
The sort of 'jungle' feel as well. Going on to a sacrifice to the sun with the heart''.
Senjutsu (2021) - alternative cover/the back cover.
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MORE INFO:
In the original sketch for Piece Of Mind, Eddie was on his knees.
In the original sketch for Somewhere In Time, Eddie was with hair.
The_7th_one
Ancient Mariner
Great research work as always!
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
LIVE ALBUMS:
Live After Death (1985) - the original cover.
Maiden England (1989) - the cover for the 2013 DVD of the concert.
Live At Donington (1992) - 1998 remastered edition cover.
A Real Live Dead One (1993) - unused cover made by Derek Riggs.
Flight 666 (2009) - I'm not 100% sure if it's official, but this artwork is made by Derek Riggs.
Live After Death (1985) - the original cover.
Maiden England (1989) - the cover for the 2013 DVD of the concert.
Live At Donington (1992) - 1998 remastered edition cover.
A Real Live Dead One (1993) - unused cover made by Derek Riggs.
Flight 666 (2009) - I'm not 100% sure if it's official, but this artwork is made by Derek Riggs.
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
Thank you very much for the kind words.
It's great to have such a thread where all the information is gathered in one place.
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
I forgot to add in the STUDIO ALBUMS section:
The Final Frontier (2010) - sketches made for the album by Melvyn Grant.
Edit: About the album cover - originally, they didn’t want the craft all ripped to shreds, but to look like a hatch had come off and Eddie to be slithering in among the skeletal crew.
The Final Frontier (2010) - sketches made for the album by Melvyn Grant.
Edit: About the album cover - originally, they didn’t want the craft all ripped to shreds, but to look like a hatch had come off and Eddie to be slithering in among the skeletal crew.
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daan
Educated Fool
It's been a while since I peeked into TFF booklet. Forgot how cool some of these are. I like the top left one. Very out-there for an Eddie, but I think there was potential there.
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
Agree. It looks more like an alien. I wish he was in full-length (the first one in the middle row looks a bit like him?). I like the original one too.
The centaur also has a potential.
daan
Educated Fool
Yup! The centaur looks like an evolved form of the first one or whatever. He also holds a guitar and it seems to me like a part of this idea got into TFF tour poster.
Hah, this and that unused Riggs art that was posted the other day in a different thread got me dreamy about the visual stuff that could have been.
It would be so damn cool if one day they published a gigantic artbook with all the illustrations, sketches, alternative art etc. Something like Run for Cover, but bigger, more comprehensive.
Dick Brucinson
The TRUE Dick Brucinson
Thank you very much for the kind words about this thread of mineThank you very much for the kind words.
The_7th_one
Ancient Mariner
Kalata made the whole work man!
Samantas5855
Ancient Mariner
NPFTD had this cover in some countries
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Iron Maiden - No Prayer For The Dying
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1993 Vinyl release of "No Prayer For The Dying" on Discogs.
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Samantas5855
Ancient Mariner
The number of the beast remaster also has different colored sky, which was how it was supposed to be
Dick Brucinson
The TRUE Dick Brucinson
I know, and all thumbs for him
but I guess he wouldn't if this thread weren't to exist 
I like this oneNPFTD had this cover in some countries
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View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1993 Vinyl release of "No Prayer For The Dying" on Discogs.