Test Layout
Added 2017-12-19 12:01:00 +0000 UTCI am slowly finding and hiring artists to redo the art for my older books, and I found someone I want to do the landscapes for the Kherishdar novels. Which... required me to know just how much landscape he was going to have to paint, so he could estimate a price for me.
I knew I didn't want an entire landscape piece for the cover because literary books often have a lot less emphasis on the art and more on the design. So I grabbed the only landscape I've done for this world and messed with it until I came up with this framework, which I think works. It needs some tweaking--what doesn't!--but I think it says "fantasy of manners" (or, I guess, in this case, science fiction of manners).
The actual books won't be bright yellow and purple though. >.>
(Also, I dunno if I'm going to keep the title font. The colors are imperfect. And everything needs to be shifted around just a little. BUT! Minor things! Right??)
Anyway. I'm not sure if using this style (and new art) will result in better sales, but it can't at this point result in worse sales, so Imma go with it. *eyes wallet* Gonna be soooooooooooo poor why do all my artists want to be paid in euros >.>
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I like the colors as well
2017-12-21 07:49:55 +0000 UTCToo bad there is not a place to post this, but as I typed it I thought of you: I would like to recommend a child's book:The Day The Goose Got loose. It is a treasured part of our extensive book collections. It is an odd book, starting before it starts as it were. and ending after it ends, if you count the drawings. And you must count the drawings as they are part of the story, maybe more so than the words. I thought of you because you are both writer and artist and might well appropriate the above book.
Godel Fishbreath
2017-12-19 23:57:21 +0000 UTC
