Heaping vow upon a vow..

[annemehr]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Eileen Rebstock"
<erebstock at c...> wrote:
>
> >I really have a
> > hard time matching those two arms and hands with Cissy and Sevvie, but
> not
> > with DD's 'rotten' hand (the fingers are like DD's on the cover) and
> > Snape's
> > skin. I though the clearer arm could belong to one of the children, or
> to
> > a
> > slender man, but not to Cissy.
> 
> Well, there were some people who insisted that it portrayed Harry and
> Hermione's handfasting... *laughs* Snape and Dumbledore would make more
> sense, though I'm skeptical as always.
> 
> Who's the artist for the British covers? Does he or she read the whole
> book or just get told what to draw for the covers?
> 
> Eileen
>


They just get told what to draw.  The only artist who reads the book
at all is Mary GrandPre, for Scholastic, because she does those
chapter illustrations.

I remember an inteview of the British HBP artist, where he described
some of what he was told about how to do the Harry and DD on the
front, but I don't remember anything about the vow illo on the back...

Here is a link to a video of the interview; I was unable to find a
transcript:

http://www.veritaserum.com/news3/comments.php?id=277

(Note: being lazy, I haven't actually watched it)

Anne