Official Iron Maiden artwork and fan drawn Eddies (no AI images please)
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Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
I assume that is Riggs, because this is a artwork for the Texas 1982 concert. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
John Silver
Electric Buddy
You can see it is Riggs clearly here on the original shirt, buddy, the other one seems to be a re-drawing actually.
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John Silver
Electric Buddy
From the same poster/shirt:
srfc
Ancient Mariner
Yeah, the colouring on the one Maiden tweeted looks like the work of the guy who does their tour shirts at the moment.
Kalata, I have Riggs book, I'll take a look in it when I get a chance and if the original is in it I'll scan it for you and post it here if you still want it.
Kalata, I have Riggs book, I'll take a look in it when I get a chance and if the original is in it I'll scan it for you and post it here if you still want it.
karljant
Ancient Mariner
IMO this is the best cover from "The X Factor" era... the montage is really cool.
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
It's so brutal. *sick*
The best cover from TXF era is the one for the album cover IMO.
srfc
Ancient Mariner
Yeah you are correct. I have the 1st and 2nd one as cd singles, but not the 3rd one
Unless I misunderstood what people are meaning, then you are wrong about the 3rd one being vinyl. The first one, the green one is the cover of the 12 Inch.
You may have the very rare dutch CD single though if you have the green one as a CD.
EDIT: I was misunderstanding, I thought people were till talking about Virus.
chaosapiant
Ancient Marinade
Speaking of covers and their sciences, I'd love to see a "remaster" of the 7th Son album and single sleeves done by Hugh Syme in the same style he did the X-Factor. I think it would be disgusting and Eddie would look fun and chewy.
srfc
Ancient Mariner
Absolutely yes. I would be happy if you do that, mate.
I had a look but unfortunately it looks like that picture isn't in the book.
karljant
Ancient Mariner
Too much unidimensional for a photograph. As far as I'm concerned this should be the cover:
chaosapiant
Ancient Marinade
Talk to me about that huge box. What’s that? Some kind of box set? Are those sheets Egyptian cotton?
karljant
Ancient Mariner
Man On The Edge single versions box set (regarding the sheet's material... beats me!)
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
Too much unidimensional for a photograph. As far as I'm concerned this should be the cover:
Sorry, but the cover for MOTE single is also not so good to me.
Please NO. The covers for the 7th Son singles are amazing and timeless.
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
This post by @karljant make me think of something: (https://forum.maidenfans.com/threads/short-answer-questions.71086/page-5#post-811208)
Does anybody know is this artwork from NPFTD era was specifically for something like tour/tour poster/merch etc ?
Does anybody know is this artwork from NPFTD era was specifically for something like tour/tour poster/merch etc ?
The_7th_one
Ancient Mariner
I just saw it in a Metal Hammer magazine cover.
Derek said in his book, that the artwork wasn't just the main artwork for the album cover and the singles. He should do a lot of artworks for the album cover, singles, magazine covers, postcards, alternative artworks (like eddie ripper in Bring your daughter…, posters, t-shirts, events t-shirts…between 10 and 20 artworks, sometimes they used all of them or don't.
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
Yeah, it is probably from some kind of a bootleg (live Wembley Arena 1990)..... see below [Iron Maiden - Sledgehammer]
This Eddie has a very shapeless strange head.
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Black Bart
Ancient Mariner
As @The_7th_one said, it was originally drawn for a Metal Hammer cover, then reprised for one version of "BYDTTS".
Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20130905....com/riggsart/Pages/maiden.dir/11beast04.html
Full gallery: http://web.archive.org/web/20110429103332/http://www.derekriggs.com/
PS @Kalata Great bootleg, isn't it?
