References from Unsplash.
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NINJA PIXELCAT…
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…is certainly not skulking around corners!
Book Cover Makeover! Before and Afters, yay!
Art, Indie Publishing FriendsA friend of mine wrote a postmodern hypertext (like, CYOA) eBook called LOVE OCTOPUS TRANSFORMATION. My sketch has been on its cover for years now, but since I’ve learned more about eyecatching book cover design, I wanted to update it and make it purdy for her.
Here’s the before:
The test of a good eBook cover: does it catch audience interest? Does it signal the genre?
My old errors: I stretched the text, and you can’t figure out what the illio is in the thumbnail. Genre, what’s that?
Here comes the AFTER!
A mashup of CC-0 photos, a little Krita magic, and surprisingly little futzing in Inkscape for the text!
This one might be a little fantastical for the subject matter, but I think it’s striking! If I could do it again, I might move the author name to the top…but at least the typeface matches her other books! #branding
Do you love BEFORE AND AFTER style book cover makeovers? Comment below with some of your favorites!
More peeps from the new ward
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Trying a new caricature technique I heard over at James Gurney’s blog: instead of thinking about which features to make bigger, think of which features to SHRINK.
Background Learners Anonymous: One-point perspective practice
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“Crap Guide Rails”
“Railroads are Hard”
This year I want to get better at backgrounds. Having a hashtag over at http://Mastodon.Art is helping, I feel like I have a community of likeminded artists wanting to improve!
Yeah, these make no sense. Went in without a plan. :b!
Sketch – Dragon queen and her hoard
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Queen Lumina in her hoard. Freehanded background, originally meant to practice her groomer monkey (who is too big). I drew the characters first, BAD ME. Also I LOVE HER STUPID HEAD it’s just a quick gesture from a taxidermy pic I had on my caveman phone.
Hope to paint this one later.
New Ward, New Faces 3
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Ooooooo textured hair. And that guy down below was REALLY hard to hear, his testimony just got softer…and softer…and softer….
Made me feel for my dad, who has hearing problems and can’t hear a word in church. 😛
New Ward, New Faces 2
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More from our new ward. The gentleman below just occurred to me as being so pale, I started him off all in white pencil.
Slight caricaturing may have happened on the topmost lady.
New Ward, New Faces
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New faces from the new ward.
We weren’t much impressed by this ward when we previewed it in 2017–no one really said hi to us except for the lady in the lower-right-hand corner. She was the first to greet us in both 2017 and 2018!
(Now we’ve moved in and realized they know they’re awkward and are working on it.)
There’s more ethnic diversity in this ward, that’s exciting.
Final old Ward drawings (3 of 3)
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And the little girl in her polka-dot dress.