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Back to work for the first time in two weeks (academia, so campus shuts down between Christmas and New Year's, plus Toby decided to take off the 3 work days of last week and I thought that was a damn fine idea).
I spent the weekend working on premade book covers to list on SelfPubBookCovers.com. One of the ones I listed there early on actually sold (woo!) so it energized me to do more. I did three, which I uploaded today for evaluation.
Speaking of book covers, I need to bump up my portfolio, plus since we didn't get an artist GoH for ConDFW, I suspect I may need to produce a cover myself. Looks like it ought to be great, right? Except that I have no idea what to do. I'd like it to be:
(a) classic fantasy-ish or SF (nothing contemporary) because I want to emphasize that in my portfolio
(b) fairly simple (i.e. one, maybe two characters if there are any identifiable characters at all)
(c) not fanart because I cherish hopes of being able to sell it at some point or put it up on a microstock site
The best part about doing commissions is that the commissioner has some idea what they want so I don't have to come up with the entire thing myself.
Anyone have any ideas?
I spent the weekend working on premade book covers to list on SelfPubBookCovers.com. One of the ones I listed there early on actually sold (woo!) so it energized me to do more. I did three, which I uploaded today for evaluation.
Speaking of book covers, I need to bump up my portfolio, plus since we didn't get an artist GoH for ConDFW, I suspect I may need to produce a cover myself. Looks like it ought to be great, right? Except that I have no idea what to do. I'd like it to be:
(a) classic fantasy-ish or SF (nothing contemporary) because I want to emphasize that in my portfolio
(b) fairly simple (i.e. one, maybe two characters if there are any identifiable characters at all)
(c) not fanart because I cherish hopes of being able to sell it at some point or put it up on a microstock site
The best part about doing commissions is that the commissioner has some idea what they want so I don't have to come up with the entire thing myself.
Anyone have any ideas?
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- Young person riding a horse with flowing hair and flowing cloaky thing, another heroic/quest fantasy standard.
- For military sf, tough-looking soldier type in foreground, either in Obvious Uniform, Obvious Powersuit, or wielding an Obvious Gun, with a starscape or porthole-with-view-of-local-stars in background. (Jack Campbell's Black Jack Geary military sf novels all got this treatment, complete with Obvious Gun, even though Admiral Geary literally never picks up a gun the entire first five books because he's busy admiraling, not being a marine; he even lampshades the covers in one of the novels!)
- For hard sf or space opera, Big Dumb Object in space with an optional smaller starship approaching it.
I realize maybe these are more generic than what you're looking for. Have you tried your own trope/art prompt/cool bits generators? ;)
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I started with my generators and ended up not finding anything inspiring. XD Thanks!
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Depositphotos
Shutterstock
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Edit: misread that small-c classic as big-C Classic, sorry. Prompt still stands?
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Or for a fantasy vibe, and riffing off
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- Dragon perching on a castle. This can either be the Happy Good Dragon version or the Darkness and Gloom Evil Dragon version.
- Planet or sun blowing up or convulsing in the background, single fleeing ship dramatically highlighted in the foreground.
- Venetian-style mask and fancy rapier.
- Swordsperson and mage/courtier type standing back to back, ready to take on all comers.
- Mage type holding a glowing ball of energy in their hands.
- On land, tiny human silhouettes dwarfed by giant robots or a big spaceship.
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