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McAnally's (The Community Pub) => Author Craft => Topic started by: Thrythlind on September 02, 2011, 02:33:44 AM
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Currently, I'll have the material to publish an ebook copy by at latest December, but hopefully sooner than that.
What I need is art for the print copy.
For those interested in helping out see the Kickstarter Page (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1669927239/divine-blood-cover-art)
For those just interested in the project:
Public Chapters and Concept Art (http://thrythlind.deviantart.com/gallery/31784035)
Divine Blood Music Inspirational Playlist(mostly AMVs but don't actually watch it while writing (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9089D98AE3CB4D56)
There are also split off playlists for: Eija, Deimosu, Naiki and Mao Semezou; Yooji; Damir; Eowyn; Gaetana; Hel; Darrin; Nike; Drak; Keun; Whelan; Minaba; Amber; and, though she only barely appears and not by name, Adelheid. But those are mostly there for the curiosity of others, I usually listen to the full list.
Art Reference Video for the Uniforms in Divine Blood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHpO73kNRfQ)
Art Reference Video for the Bravura Academy kids (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDcjQtcVJc0)
Art Reference Video for the Avalon soldiers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTvv6ZLwyyE)
Art Reference Video for the Semezou Family (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAd_m9hr_NY)
Art Reference Video for the Gods of the first novel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KddmlYTUiPY)
Art Reference Video for the Demons of the first novel. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88IuKFw0BSI)
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I like what you have in the sample chapters. What are you looking for out of the cover art though? Are you imagining a scene from the story, just dramatic character poses, or perhaps something more abstract? What sort of tone do you want it to portray? A tagline sort of description of the story as you want it to appear from the cover would be helpful :)
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I like what you have in the sample chapters. What are you looking for out of the cover art though? Are you imagining a scene from the story, just dramatic character poses, or perhaps something more abstract? What sort of tone do you want it to portray? A tagline sort of description of the story as you want it to appear from the cover would be helpful :)
I'm deciding between a couple of things at the moment....thinking somewhere between a picture of the Academy grounds...or the Semezou warehouse...or a group portrait....running a contest now to choose the cover artist
I'm leaning more toward dramatic poses, landscape and abstractions (circles and/or fluctuating energies) than a distinct scene though
the tagline my prereaders and I stumbled on is "Evolution can be inconvenient" because it more or less summarizes a lot of the story as a whole
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I'm deciding between a couple of things at the moment....thinking somewhere between a picture of the Academy grounds...or the Semezou warehouse...or a group portrait....running a contest now to choose the cover artist
I'm leaning more toward dramatic poses, landscape and abstractions (circles and/or fluctuating energies) than a distinct scene though
the tagline my prereaders and I stumbled on is "Evolution can be inconvenient" because it more or less summarizes a lot of the story as a whole
If you are leaning toward the abstractions/fluctuating energies side of things, i highly recommend you take a look around http://electricsheep.org, a site that runs a distributed network (one of those screen saver computational deal, like LHC@Home, etc). Its all about creating and breeding large Fractal art in such a way that they literally evolve. Quite interesting, usually stunningly beautiful, and they have a rather simple policy regarding reuse.