I have all these photos of a wicker maze built locally, and it’s a really striking construction and there is virtually no way that it doesn’t end in serial killers, so I wanted to fiddle with book cover design using the photos. I have not written this book and have no immediate plans to. I […]
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Two versions of the Bryony cover today–I have heard and obeyed the lack of love for the slant! I have slanted much harder! I am skeptical about the bee. The problem is that clockwork bees are inherently small and fiddly, and it just doesn’t read all that clearly. But I do think it needs something […]
Livejournal was hopping with good advice, which led to this: and that led to this: For this next one, a reprise of Bryony, I wanted to use the same font, but a rather bolder graphic approach. I have no idea if it works at all visually, but I gotta confess, the thumbnail reads better […]
Poking at the horror cover some more. Thank you all for the feedback (I think I gotta backburner the garden one for a bit–I’ve hit the point where I’ve stared at it for so long that it no longer has any visual meaning.) On this one, I discovered that it got a little less […]
After all the great input (and I appreciate it!) on Livejournal, here’s round two of the first fake cover! I lightened the background and ran a light green gradient over it to make it contrast more starkly with the dark swatch, ran the author name to the edges to match the title, and increased the […]
This book does not really exist, and is unlikely to do so, so let’s get that out of the way. Having realized that I will probably be randomly self-publishing things for many years to come, I finally decided that I need to address one of the glaring holes in my artistic skillset–graphic design. I’m not […]